# Numerology (June 8, 2018) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 8, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690 "2018-06-08T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clevecallison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@clevecallison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clevecallison)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/1 "2018-06-08T15:39:52Z")
In reference to Shakespeare and the King James Bible – I enjoyed mentioning Gardner’s “46” discovery when teaching Shakespeare, but I never cited it as evidence. Alas, one year I looked up the Tyndale translation of the Bible (a predecessor of the KJV, long before Shakespeare), and guess what? The same 46 coincidence appears. So much for that theory! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/2 "2018-06-08T15:58:52Z")
I think [this](https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2230/whats-the-story-on-numerology/)was the column. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/3 "2018-06-08T16:45:42Z")
There’s an _entire_ book in The Bible about numbers titled “Numbers” … 74,600 seems a particularly important one to boot …only slightly larger than 42[sup]3[/sup] … ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/4 "2018-06-09T00:41:31Z")
I’m sticking with 69,105. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/5 "2018-06-09T12:23:36Z")
Give me 144,000 any day … ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/6 "2018-06-09T13:39:59Z")
Hundredths of a minute? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/7 "2018-06-09T15:56:54Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Give me 144,000 any day … Isn’t that gross a thousand times over? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/8 "2018-06-11T19:12:38Z")
8,675,309 Yeah, I’ve got your number. ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/9 "2018-06-11T19:37:23Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Isn’t that gross a thousand times over? That’s an end-times prophecy regarding 12,000 people from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. See Revelation ch. 7. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numerology-june-8-2018/815690/10 "2018-06-18T15:46:31Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > There’s an _entire_ book in The Bible about numbers titled “Numbers” … 74,600 seems a particularly important one to boot …only slightly larger than 42[sup]3[/sup] … Had to look that one up. Number of men in Tribe of Judah. > [@Chronos](#): > > Hundredths of a minute? Thanks for that. Cute one, **watchwolf49**. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Isn’t that gross a thousand times over? I see what you did there.