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I always thought it was hilarious that most people who 'solve the riddle' of II:76 know the answer in advance and simply seek ways to find it. That is, people go into it thinking they will find some clever addition-scheme to get them to 418 or 666... So what? If we already know what it will say ahead of time, what exactly is the point? If you get to e=mc^2 after 3,000 pages of calculations some might praise you but I would call it a gigantic waste of time... we already know e=mc^2 (in the analogy, that 418 & 66 are significant and sought-for numbers) and that is the meat of it
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