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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Re: Green pentagonal pentacles? (was Re: wearing pagan/pentacle jewelry)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: skid.ps.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2B5EF4E5.22338@news.service.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 19:09:26 GMT
- References: <_3g36l-@rpi.edu> <2B5C4995.14252@news.service.uci.edu> <8fLZ0Ay00WAuMFDlEt@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <8fLZ0Ay00WAuMFDlEt@andrew.cmu.edu> Daniel Patrick Schanbacher <ds7o+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >Excerpts from netnews.alt.pagan: 19-Jan-93 Re: Green pentagon pentacle..
- >Janis Maria Cortese@skid (808)
- >
- >> How many letters are in the alphabet they code" If there are 25 or
- >> fewer, then five marks falls out quite naturally, without necessitating
- >> any mystical correspondence.
- >
- >Well, there are in fact 25 letters in the ogham alphabet. But they are
- >broken up into 5 groups of 5
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- I am being misquoted here, for some bizarre reason. I said 2^5 -- two
- to the fifth, or thirty-two, the max number you can encode usinbg 5
- bits.
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- Blessings,
- Janis
-