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SCIENCE IN ANCIENT ARTWORK

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Extract No.19

A Mathematical Constant: 288

By Charles William Johnson
Within the maya long count numbers/fractals, the pictun number 2880000 appears to represent a strict relationship with similar fractals occurring in nature and in the general eld of mathematics. It is understandable that many scholars shy away from the study of numbers, because one does not know what particular aspect obeys human design and which aspect obeys merely the manner in which numbers behave. In the Earth/matriX series, we have been attempting to distinguish these two aspects; numbers/fractals that occur in nature, and numbers/fractals that are historically signicant (chosen by the ancients in their reckoning systems). Regarding the number/fractal 288, which lies on the maya long count series (36, 72, 144, 288, 576, 1152, 2304), we shall examine its relationship in some aspects of nature and mathematics. The case may be that the ancient maya chose the long count series of numbers/fractals because they reect not only a constant series within mathematics, but also because they may be found in nature. Initially, then, we nd the 288 number/fractal within the maya long count series. We have also seen this particular number/fractal become instrumental in the arrangement of electrons in the elements of the periodic table (Cfr., Earth/matriX, Nos. 61 & 62). The extranuclear electron count for argon is 288, with a change of level occurring with the next element, potassium with the 2881 arrangement. Let us observe a partial view of the periodic table, with some of the elements and their corresponding extranuclear electron count. 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 8 1 2 8 2 2 8 3 2 8 4 2 8 5 2 8 6 2 8 7 2 8 8 2 8 8 1 2 8 8 2 2 8 9 2 2 8 10 2 2 8 11 2 2 8 13 1 2 8 13 2 2 8 14 2 2 8 15 2 2 8 16 2 2 8 18 1 2 8 18 2 2 8 18 3 2 8 18 4 etc

The element neon has a conguration of 28, which changes with sodium 281; then, argon 288, which changes with potassium 2881. From the perspective of the logic of numbers, one would expect the 2881 pattern to evolve through 2888; but, change occurs scandium 2892, whereby the third level of electrons jumps to 9. Nonetheless, the signicant pattern involves the 288 beginning, and the fact that it is maintained throughout with changes at the third level. No matter what, one obtains the impression that 288 is the underlying pattern suggested from the outset of the extranuclear electron count of the elements. In other words, the pattern that is visibly suggested, and broken, is that of 288, for whatever reasons of the possibility/impossibility of electron stability at the third level. Another example of the mathematical constant 288 exists within geometry and the relationships of equivaleny/inequivalency of the numbers of perfect right triangles. We have discussed this particular aspect in detail in previous essays (Cfr., Earth/matriX, Nos. 55, 56, 57 & 58). The regular, perfect right triangle series begins with the measurements 345. These measurements serve as the basis for the Pythagorean Theorem, whereby the square of the rst two numbers, combined, equal the square of the third term. There exists another series of perfect right triangles, which may be determined as irregular, which begins with the measurement numbers 51213, which also obeys the Pythagorean Theorem. Now, consider the difference between the numbers of the two distinct series of perfect right triangles:

As one may observe from this series of numbers and differences, the 288 initial term begins the series with 288, with increments thereafter of 244. In 3 other words, two distinct series of perfect right triangles exist; one begins with the measurements 345 and the other with those of 51213; and, the difference between these measurements is 288. As in the periodic table, we are observing now in geometry the reoccurrence of the terms 288 as an initial constant representing a change in level; a change from one series of of perfect right triangles to the other. In previous studies we have seen how the 345 and 51213 numbers on a graph at right angles reect the very design and layout of some of the pyramidal sites (Cfr., Earth/matriX, No.80). Aside from these aspects of nature and mathematics, there might be a more direct observation of the signicance of the 288 number/fractal within the maya long count system itself. In order to discern this point, we shall require examining the method of duplatio/mediatio and the maya companion number 1366560. From the previous example, it is relatively easy to see that in order to go from the rst series of perfect right triangles (345) to the next series (51213), must simply add 288 correspondingly to the numbers of the rst. Regarding the maya companion number, 1366560, its signicance is not so readily observed. In fact, today scholars do not appear to be in agreement as to exactly what the companion numbers mean (1366560 and 1385540). However, we have been analyzing them in relation to the maya long count and the ancient reckoning system of ancient kemi, and some computations appear to be relevant involving these particular numbers. Let us concentrate on the 1366560 companion number here. Let us take two historically signicant numbers, 25920 and 31104, and add them together for the sake of an example; then, we shall apply the doubling/halving method, and have the companion number enter the scene as well. Many examples may be chosen, but we shall offer only a couple, since once the reader observes the manner in which the numbers perform, it will be seen that this particular computation holds for any case. We have chosen more obvious historically signicant numbers for this illustration. 25920 31104 57024 57024 (doubled) 114048 228096 456192 912384 1824768 1824768 - 1366560 = 458208 458208 (halved) 229104 114552 57276 28638 14319 14319 / 3 = 4773 1591

Now, 458208 / 1591 = 288 Had we continued to divide 1591 by 3, the result would have been: 530.333; a fraction. It is often stated that the ancient maya avoided the fractions. In a sense, what we are observing is that their very system, the maya long count numbers/fractals, serve for computations with fractions. The companion number intervenes at one point in the computation whereby a number is achieved that results in a fractional relationship with the maya long count. Consider the following series based on doubling/halving the numbers: 458208 / / / / 1591 795.5 397.75 198.875 = = = = 288 576 1152 2304 (pictun) (calbatun) (kinchiltun) (alautun)

Now, let us treble the original number: 5704 171072 513216 1539648 1539648 1366560 = 173088 86544 43272 21636 10818 5409 / 2 =

/ 3 =

1803 601 173088 / 601 = 288 In other words, the maya long count numbers/fractals, on this particular series of numbers as of the subtracting of the companion number, represent a constant number series, similar to that occupied by the more well-known constant series 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512; a series which is used in modernday computers alongwith the maya long count constant series (Cfr., Earth/matriX Extract No.12). The last number evenly divisible by three on the series relates as of 288x to the rst number appearing on the series after the companion number has been subtracted (since 601 / 3 = 200.333). Let us present one more example with a previously cited number: 290304 580608 1161216 (= 259200 + 31104) 1366560 = 205344

205344 (halved) 102672 51336 25668 12834

6417 2139 713 237.666

/ 3 =

205344 / 713 = 288 In other words, after subtracting the companion number 1366560, one obtains a number series (fractional or not) in relation to the maya long count numbers/fractals

Depending, then, upon the chosen direction, the number series in these cases begins/ends with the constant term 288; as one either goes into fractional expressions (for example, 237.666), or leaves fractional expressions (for example, 237.888). Prior to entering and leaving fractional computations, then, as of the maya companion number, one is always dealing with a number that relates 288 times with the product resulting from the maya companion number. In this manner, from the perspective of mathematical computations possible within the designed maya long count and the companion number, 1366560, one is faced with a mathematical constant of 288, which likewise begins or ends a series of numbers/fractals based on the maya long count (36, 72, 144, 288, 576, 1152, 2304) in relation to fractional/whole numbers. From this perspective, the manner in which the maya long count is designed as of the companion number, we see a very similar procedure followed as to that witnessed within the change of levels within the extranuclear electron count of the elements as cited on the periodic table, and the translation between the two sets of perfect right triangles. In other words, the very design of the maya long count system, as we have examined it through possible computations as of its own terms (numbers/fractals), would appear to reect the designs found in nature. One might want to conclude prematurely that all of these relationships are mere happenstance; coincidence. Yet, the fact that an historically signicant number (1366560), which is obviously the result of humanly consious design and decision-making, i.e., by choice, would somehow keep us from simply attributing all of this coincidence to mere happenstance. In order to obtain the constant series, it would appear that human intervention had to be designed as of the companion number; that is, the companion number 1366560 was chosen with a specic computational purpose in mind. It results from a conscious design, and a specic kind of knowledge regarding the behaviour of numbers/fractals in the ancient reckoning system. ************************* 1997-2012 Copyrighted by Charles William Johnson. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited without written consent of the author. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Earth/matriX Science in Ancient Artwork Extract N.19

A Mathematical Constant: 288

July 15, 1997
1997-2012

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