| Title: | Mathematics at DEC |
| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP |
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2083 |
| Total number of notes: | 14613 |
There are some interesting applications of series on the 14th
verse of the 4th chapter of Genesis. The King James Version makes
Cain say:
"... and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth;
and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall
slay me."
The question is this:
How many did Cain fear?
-kgg
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 642.1 | some more info . . . | THEBUS::KOSTAS | Wisdom is the child of experience. | Wed Jan 07 1987 10:01 | 12 |
Most people who read this accound wonder why Cain should dread being killed, when it does not appear to them that there were any anhabitants on the earth at that time but himself and his parents. To correct this mistake, let it be observed that the death of Abel took place in the 128th or 129th year of the world. Now, supposing Adam and Eve to have had no other sons and Cain and Abel in the year of the world 128, yet as they had daughters married to these sons, their descendants would make a considerable figure on the earth. -kgg | |||||