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You know those things that you just want to be true, because they would make the world so much more interesting? This is one of those things.
by lukev 17y ago
You know those things that you just want to be true, because they would make the world so much more interesting?
This is one of those things.
- lincolnq 17y agoThis is what tipped me off (due to its attractiveness -- making me think "wow, this fits TOO well"): Initially, Udo's aim was to devise a method for determining who would reach heaven. He assumed each person's soul was composed of independent parts he called "profanus" (profane) and "animi" (spiritual), and represented these parts by a pair of numbers. Then he devised rules for drawing and manipulating these number pairs. In effect, he devised the rules for complex arithmetic, the spiritual and profane parts corresponding to the real and imaginary numbers of modern mathematics.