11111: The Binary Biblical Studies Carnival Meme
2008 June 30
In view of the failure of anyone to publish a Biblical Studies Carnival for the last two months, I have decided to come to the rescue with a carnival of my own.
This meme is very simple. You choose five Biblical studies types and invent a post that they might have written over the last couple of months. Those parodied are entitled, yea, obligated to tag five other bibliobloggers in similar fashion. Don’t forget to link to this original post.
- NT Wrong: Surprised by the Pope
- Iyov: Augustine of Hippo never learned Greek so you don’t have to either.
- Doug Chaplin: Just as if I’d never sinned: Pauline Justification For Dummies
- Jim Getz: Monkey God: What Obama has taught me about the blessings of a pluralistic reading of ANE texts.
- John Hobbins: Loo Loo Skip To My Loo: Potty talk and poetic scansion.
Here are the rules:
a. Tag five Biblical studies bloggers.
b. Invent fictional posts that they might have written over the last month.
c. Link to this post.
Note: Failure to keep this meme going will result in the offender being forced to listen to Todd Bentley reading the complete works of Zwingli.
last two months? you have a strange way of counting. July isn’t here. And May 1 the last carnival was posted. That’s just one month carnival-less.
Oops. Thanks for clarification.
does Todd know how to read? i bet he does a german accent REALLY well
I wish you had tagged me. Then I would have deliberately failed to keep the meme going to win the prize of hearing the wonderful Todd Bentley putting Zwingli in his place, at least by proxy. It would be nice if Jim West would stand proxy but a copy of the Complete Works would do instead. I’m sure Todd would punch the proxy in the teeth and dropkick him/it, and then impart him/it with the power to bring revival to Zurich and baptise its whole population in the Holy Spirit and the river Limmat.
Sorry, I could only manages four “1″s in the time stamp of my last comment. But surely that antidote to non-carnival XXX is not 11111 but OOO.
Ah, it’s binary of course. Far too obvious and simple. I do my arithmetic in base 2007.
Seriously, I did solve a problem in this way a few months ago. It was something like, calculate (1 + (2007)4 + (2008)4)/(1 + (2007)2 + (2008)2). Hard to solve in decimal arithmetic, but easy if you convert to base 2007.
Looks like WordPress doesn’t do superscripting in comments. The 2’s and 4’s in the last comment were supposed to be superscripted, indicating squares and fourth powers.
Peter, serves you right for trying to be tricky. You were tagged early on by someone. By the way, some of our math challenged colleagues out there have had a hard time with binary. I’m not sure they’re ready for base-2007. I plan to post a little tutorial for the untutored.
Okay, I’m playing…
http://bibleandtech.blogspot.com/2008/07/11111-binary-biblical-studies-carnival.html
calculate (1 + (2007)4 + (2008)4)/(1 + (2007)2 + (2008)2)
Certainly, it is simplest to solve this problem algebraically, making the elementary observation that
[1 + a^4 + (a+1)^4]/[1 + a^2 + (a+1)^2] =
1 + a + a^2
That is what I supposed he was doing. But Peter’s the rocket scientist so I defer to him in all things mathematical (and most other things as well).
Iyov, that’s how I first tackled the problem. But in base 2007 it reduces to simple arithmetic, (1 + 10000 + 14641)/(1 + 100 + 121) = 24642/222 = 111.
(eyes glaze over) See Iyov? Don’t mess with Peter when it comes to math.