(October 5, 2012 at 3:22 am)franca Wrote: the names so closely related to jesus will always be the same number. ALWAYS AAAAHHHHH Breaks the reasoning of mathematics. probability speakingHow come no one actually bothered to tell him the odds?
Jesus / Joshua = 74.
Let's work out the odds of this randomly occuring, Greek name is 5 letters, Hebrew name is 6 letters. There are 26 letters in the alphabet, thus the most likely number that a 5-letter word will produce is 5x 12.5 = 68, and the most likely number a 6-letter word will produce is 6x 12.5 = 75.
Now, both names are the same root Hebrew word, thus they both start with the same letter, so let's discount that letter entirely and just work off:
esus / oshua = 64
Now we have a 4 letter word and a 5 letter word. Remember the most likely number a 5-letter word will produce is 68, 64 is just off the mark. The most likely number a 4 letter word will produce is 50, but let's ignore this too. Since I can't actually be bothered finding out how many 5-letter words add up to 64, I'll just use estimation. I'd say the chances are about 1 in 20 or so. Hardly staggering odds.
