[net.movies] HAL

rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (10/19/83)

Equally interesting is the fact that if you rotate the first two letters
of IBM forward one letter, and the last one back one letter, you get JCL.
(wow!)

dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (10/21/83)

Yes indeedy. And amazingly enough, if you rotate the first letter of IBM
back 5 letters, the second forward 1 letter, and the third back 10 letters,
you get DEC.

Why 5-1-10, I hear you cry? Well, ya see, the 10 is binary for 2, so it
spells 512, which is the largest three-digit power of 2...

You can play this game with any combination of letters and numbers
if you try hard enough. It's the modern equivalent of gematria.
(Speaking of which, 770 is Bais Mashiach, but that's off-topic...)

Dave Sherman
Toronto
-- 
 {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave

mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/23/83)

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uiucdcs!mcewan    Oct 21 15:04:00 1983

The most amazing thing about IBM is that , if you rotate the I by some
number r1, the B by r2 and the M by r3, by chosing the correct values
of r1, r2 and r3 you can get *any* 3 letter word or name! Really! Isn't
that incredible?!?

				Scott McEwan
				pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan

rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (10/24/83)

I think you're all misunderstanding what I meant by "equally interesting".
The act of rotating the letters in IBM sideways to form JCL is EQUALLY
INTERESTING to IBM-->HAL,DEC,RLR,BTL,ATT,MCI rotations.  (i.e., Each has the
same interest value---can you guess what that interest value is???)