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A Composite Without Lore

Eighty-two is twice forty-one and reduces to ten and then one. It is one of the integers in the eighties that carry no traditional religious symbolism; the older systems, which developed the small numbers and the round figures, left it untouched. What can be said of it is structural only, and structure is not lore.

Eighty-two factors as 2 x 41 and carries 4 divisors in all. Summing its proper divisors gives only 44, short of the number itself, which places it among the deficient numbers in the same classical scheme.

Florence Campbell, a student of Balliett's, restated and extended the chart in Your Days Are Numbered in 1931, and Juno Jordan, founder of the California Institute of Numerical Research, standardised the modern four-part chart of life path, expression, soul urge and personality numbers in 1965; both writers worked from name and birth date rather than from any older number philosophy.

The genuine Pythagorean number philosophy that this modern chart borrows its name from left no writings of its own: Pythagoras and his early followers taught only by mouth, and what survives of their number theory comes instead through Nicomachus of Gerasa, whose Introduction to Arithmetic of the first century CE became the standard authority for a thousand years, and through Iamblichus, who drew on Nicomachus two centuries later; neither wrote anything resembling a name-and-birthdate numerology.

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