[Avodah] Coincidences? You Decide.

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:51:40PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> Given:
> Shanah = 355
> Regular lunar year = 354 days
> 
> Note: g'matriyah has a technique called (IIRC) "im hakollel". That allows
> a discrepancy of one to be equivalent.
> 
> Disclaimer:  
> I don't know the parameters and rules of when this technique applies

I thought of that, but you're using "im hakollel" in the wrong
direction. "Im hakollel" allows you to add one to a gematria
(apparently for each word involved), so "im hakollel" for "shanah" =
356.

--Ken

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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