User talk:Fredrick stroodle

Arithmancy
Even if the factual content of your additions had been correct, you added it to the "Arithmancy" article page in an incorrect way. But in fact, there were problems with the material you added. For example, what does it mean to say that "Arithmancy" has existed for over 2000 years? Certainly the modern alphabetic table shown at the top of the article hasn't existed for 2000 years -- especially since it employs a particular form of the Latin Alphabet which didn't really exist before the 18th century A.D. Isopsephy existed in ancient Greece, but that was based on the Greek alphabet, and assigned letters from values of 1-900, and didn't recursively sum things to single digits, so it was in fact quite different from modern numerological arithmancy.

Also, the Chaldeans were not Arabs, and didn't live in Arabia, and it would be very difficult to trace Hebrew/Aramaic Gematria back to the ninth century B.C. (as far as I'm aware, there's very little evidence for it until almost five centuries later). Etc. AnonMoos 02:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)