fOrstemann] * PAGES 31a-32a, DRESDEN CODEX 459 



2. The difference between the third and first numbers is 214,500; 

 that is, exactly fifty-five times 3,900, plainly ])roving that nothing has 

 been left to accident here. 



3. The difference between the second and third numbers must 

 therefore be 218,400, or fifty-six times 3,900. It should l)e noted here 

 that 56=7X8 and 7 : S : : 91 : 104. 



Now, in this 218,400 are united all the properties sought in the 

 fundamental series. It is 2,400X91 (therefore also equals 000X304) = 

 2,100X104=840X260." To be sure, 3,640 already contains these fac- 

 tors, but the fulfillment of prophecy was not sought in such close 

 proximity, else the prophet might easil}^ have been held accountable. 

 In addition, 218,400 has the desirable property of being composed of 

 600 ritual years of 364 days. 



The number 218,400 appears to me now as the real objective point 

 of the computation, or rather as its starting point, for the original 

 computer must have begun at that point in order by calculating back- 

 ward to reach the three apparently unimportant numbers which the 

 manuscript records, and then evolve from them such a remarkable 

 result. 



In the last column but one of page 31 our passage presents a num- 

 ber, 2,804,100, which occupies a wholly isolated position in the manu- 

 script, as it is nearly twice as large as any of the other large numbers, 

 except those found in the ser]:>ents. This number ought to allude to 

 the year 9 Muluc, and to the thirteenth day of the eighth month, 3'et 

 that seems to have no importance. At all events it denotes the day 

 IV 17. On considering its remarkable jDroperties we find : 



1. It is equal to 10,7S5X2(;0. 



2. It Is equal to 17.975X156. The last is the difference between tlie 

 days IV 1 and IV 17. From this follows: 



3. It is equal to 35,950x78. 78 is the difference between IV 19 and 

 IV 17, and between IV 1 and IV 19. 



4. It is equal to 719X3,9(X). We have above already recognized 3,90Ci 

 as a very important number. 



But 2,804,100, on account of its magnitude, awakens the suspicion 

 that it may be composed of two of the ordinary large numbers. 

 These might be — 



5. It is equal to 1,308.5804- 1,495,-520; that would signify 14,.380X 

 (91-f-104). 



6. It is equal to 1,380,600+1,423,500; that would signify 3,900x (354+ 

 365.) 



This shows, as was evident from number 4, the important 3,900, but 

 it divides the 719 mentioned there into the lunar year, 354-=6X 

 29-J-6X30, and the civil year. I confess I have met this nowhere 



« 18.'3,120 + 33,280=218,400. 



