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I got this in an email. Interesting, no?
Subject: is G-D telling us something?
For each day the Stock Market closed this week, the total of the digits of the change on the dow jones is the number 26 .
Monday close – 634.76 = 26
Tuesday close + 429.92 = 26
Wednesday close – 519.83= 26
An actuary in shul said the odds of this are millions to one
For those not familiar, the number 26 is the sum of the name of hashem – yud=10, hay =5, vav = 6 hay = 5 grand total 26
Veru interesting!
I wonder whats the reason?
As usual, these chain hashgacha prutis emails rely on tedious mathematics to ensure that no fact checks them. The probility that 5 random digits add up to 26 is 1 in 20. For that to happen three times you just cube it to get 1 in 8000. (In fact the likelihood is better since the first digit it almost always zero.) That means it should happen once every 30 years or so. (thats 3 26s specifically, NOT 3 of any number which is obviously going to be more common,
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