I just finished copying down the flood narrative portion of Genesis for a two column arithmetic paper, which is how you go about proving calculus, or at least it’s how Isaac Newton found the age of the earth. Has anyone else ever done all the math on that passage, I know you know it rained for forty days and forty nights, because they teach you that in kindergarten, but there are more time notes than that in the story. The total time spent inside the Ark, including seven days before the rain started and the times the two birds were released comes to just over a year. It can be divided up into months, it talks about which day of the month certain things happened on. It was the twenty seventh of the month on the day Noah and his family left the Ark. anyone done it before…there’s also a chart by the translator in my copy of the Bible, but I like calligraphy, so I’m doing it myself.
I am not sure what a two column arithmetic paper is. Calculus is determined by theoretical proofs. Newton had the general theological perspective of the time of an Earth beginning in 3998 BC or some such. He did a though experiment and it was in the tens of thousands of year. I am not sure how the Ark has to do with determining the age of the Earth. I am very puzzled by the use of calligraphy (are you sure you understand what that is?) and a graph. It is pretty rare for someone to translate an entire bible, but it has happened.
Well two columns of arithmetic in numbers only is the same as two columns of geometry in measurement only. Of course, both require notation in language, it’s the logic of the numeration or diagram that gives it meaning. But that’s what it is. Columnar arithmetic is used by accountants, yet in engineering the math is geometric.