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Subject: Interesting math fron Fall of Reach
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A friend and I were having a discussion on the significance of the names of planets in the Halo books. Harvest and Jericho both have 7 letters, so that's something (maybe). So I was trying to figure out something for Sigma Octanus IV.
In the ionic Greek number system, sigma = 200. When I looked up octanus, it doesn't have a meaning of its own, but I did find octal, another way of saying base 8. So I converted 200 to base 8 and got 310. But I couldn't attach any significance to 310, so I just set it aside and went back to reading. Then, when I got to the attack on Reach, I realized what I'd done wrong - I forgot the four! So:
Sigma = 200.
Sigma octanus (sigma converted to an octal number) = 310.
310 + 4 = 314.
And 314 = the number of ships in the Covenant fleet sent to attack Reach!
Coincidence? I doubt it.

  • 11.24.2004 3:57 PM PDT
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thinking waaaaay to deep into it dude

  • 11.24.2004 7:46 PM PDT
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Wither it is a coincidence or conspiracy, it's cool anyway, nice find. but I don't get what you mean by converting 200 to 8 to get 310.

  • 11.24.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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thats a pretty cool find idont know if its coincidence or not but nice job

  • 11.24.2004 7:55 PM PDT
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That's probably how they come up with their numbers. I doubt it has real story significance, it's just a neat little tidbit. Awesome find.

  • 11.24.2004 8:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stalking Puma
Wither it is a coincidence or conspiracy, it's cool anyway, nice find. but I don't get what you mean by converting 200 to 8 to get 310.


he means making the number 200 base 8 instead of base 10... base 10 is... ect... 10^2 + 10^1 + 10^0.... meansing 200 is (2x10^2) (0x10^1) (0x10^0)...22 in base 10 is 22.. (2x10^1) (2x10^1)... get it? well 200 in base 8 would be (0x8^3)(3x8^2)(1x8^1)(0x8^0)... which is 0310... which is 310.... best way i know to explain base 8... (binary is base 2, have fun figuring binary out if ya want to)

  • 11.24.2004 8:17 PM PDT
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Thats a nice find but try not to think too hard on that kind of stuff. Headaches are uncomfortable.

  • 11.24.2004 9:47 PM PDT
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adding 4 why?

and u guys are dumb if u dnt get base 8

  • 11.25.2004 3:04 AM PDT
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yeah and did anyone every notice that on the first 2 pages of the fall of reach it says that there's only 4 spartans in blue team, but John "Blue three and five- follow me up"

  • 11.25.2004 3:43 PM PDT
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My god..i thought iw as the only one to figure that out, me thinking it was a coincidence or a silly math error payed no attention to it...but maybe there trying to tell us something...Nah

  • 11.25.2004 5:24 PM PDT
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no. . .there's a lot of typos in that book. . .it was probably rushed out with very little or no editing

  • 11.25.2004 6:31 PM PDT
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4 Spartans not including MC, so 5 total.

  • 11.25.2004 6:42 PM PDT