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Ciphers
Full Reduction
69
CIVILIZATIONS
C3 + I9 + V4 + I9 + L3 + I9 + Z8 + A1 + T2 + I9 + O6 + N5 + S1 = 69
Full Reduction
42
KNOWLEDGE
K2 + N5 + O6 + W5 + L3 + E5 + D4 + G7 + E5 = 42
Reverse Reduction
42
TECH TREE
T7 + E4 + C6 + H1 + T7 + R9 + E4 + E4 = 42
In ancient Greek, letters also functioned as numerals. That is how isopsephy was possible. Jewish tradition developed gematria. Now computers assign every encoded character a numerical code point. One of them is still ASTERISK: Unicode U+002A, decimal 42.
Elon has said, “Everything is computer.”
Why is so much of reality expressible through number? Is mathematics a language consciousness uses to describe reality, or are we discovering something about the architecture of reality itself?
The tree was written first. These sums were run after.