Computer Programmers Talk Gematria

 

I found a website of self described hackers who got into a forum discussion on gematria and related topics.  That discussion included a lot of the basic facts of how gematria was scammy, how the narratives were forced to match numbers that are small bits of data instead of statistically significant larger bits of data, how Qanon latched on to gematria, and

Changing a number into another number.

Eventually these peeps using their superior to average brain power and programming skills latched on to a challenge.  What’s the smallest and what’s the largest number that when written out as words the gematria of the number equals itself?  The comment in the attached image is one of the better results.  And you can immediately see the acknowledgment of what’s wrong with the system.  251 only fulfills the criteria if you include the word AND, instead of just TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ONE.  Phraseshopping until you get an answer you like.

I’m not sure they understand that the process is quite common, spelling out numbers as words to change the value happens all the time.  It’s a fun thread, not intended to be taken seriously as far as an endorsement or denouncement of gematria.  Just a lark then moving on to the next topic that strikes their fancy.  And that’s about as much of a legitimate use for gematria as you’re going to get out there in the wild.

They didn’t have the time or desire to delve into some of the loonier aspects of spelling out numbers as words.  How there’s no hard and fast rule for whether the AND is included or not.  Or what do you do when you get a new number off the old one?  What about languages other than English and their numbers?  What about different ciphers?  Do you stop there or turn that into a new number?  There’s likely a closed loop where A—->B——>C——>D——>E——> leads back to B (or something else in the chain and you get stuck infinitely repeating the same cycle.  And that’s assuming that you stick to some basic rules on consistency.

Missing from their fun was recognition that gematria works the opposite way of their investigation.  The use of spelling out numbers as words is not any form of decoding.  It’s “fuck that number, I don’t like that result”.  A purposeful manipulation to achieve a hit where the result is clearly a miss.  Because what they did discuss is the way the words are spelled out greatly shortens the amount of data to describe them.  ONE MILLION is a lot easier to type into document than ONE THOUSAND THOUSAND.  That’s the way language works - a communication shortcut.  Mathematically a thousand thousands is one million. But say thousand thousands at the next party you don’t get invited to and you sound like a maniac.  These hackers quickly understood there’s an upper limit to useful numbers.  Three digits max, even the lower three digit numbers instead of three digit numbers an approaching one thousandth of a million.  If the news reports that 4,983 of something was significant to the story it’s either getting changed into 49 and 83 or some jackwipe is going to make it 48 or 51 by spelling it out and dropping zeroes.

Because that makes alllllll kinds of sense.  In all seriousness, as the rabbit hole is being navigated the clueless will also notice that HUNDRED and EIGHTY both equal 74 and get distracted on how 47 meant something to them earlier that day.  That’s the way conspiracy grifter gematria works in practice.