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A Composite Without Lore

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A Composite Without Lore

A hundred and twelve is sixteen times seven and reduces to four. It carries no traditional religious symbolism; the older systems did not develop it. What can honestly be said of it is structural only, and structure is not lore.

A hundred and twelve factors as 2^4 x 7 and carries 10 divisors in all. Summing its proper divisors gives 136, more than the number itself, which makes it an abundant number in the classical sense the Pythagoreans used to sort integers into deficient, perfect and abundant classes.

Where the Chaldean chart and the Balliett-descended chart assign different values to the same letters, a name totalling one figure in one system need not total the same figure in the other, since the two rest on unrelated letter-value tables rather than on a shared inheritance from any single ancient source.

The whole apparatus of digit-reduction numerology is a twentieth-century invention rather than an inheritance from antiquity. Mrs. L. Dow Balliett published the first systematic version, The Philosophy of Numbers, in 1908, fixing the letter-to-number chart still used today and ruling that eleven and twenty-two must stand as master numbers rather than reduce further; her colleague, the physician Julia Seton, is credited with coining the word numerology itself around 1912.

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