Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

[Boris Borcic]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> 
> I'm surprised you miss the main advantage -- 0666, the Number
> of the Beast in octal, translates to decimal 438, the A.D. in which
> Emperor Theodosius II promulgated the Theodosian Code,


Very neat, but...

Surely you are aware that 666 refers to president Bush' notion that
"whoever isn't with us is against us" - since the excluded middle is 
written excluded "third" in most reasonable languages, including latin, 
e.g. "tertium non datur", and 1 - 1/3 = 0.666... ?

OTOH, the aversion for the excluded middle implied by this (quite 
natural) interpretation of the 666 should as well apply to mutual 
exclusion *of interpretations in general*, and of interpretations of the 
666 in particular (ambiguity is abusively maligned, if one believes in 
Goedel's theorem).

Now the chapter of the Rev. that ends with 666 is inviting the naive 
reader to assume the number can't refer to himself, while calling for 
wisdom and intelligence... so I found the following way to associate it 
with my initials.

Let B = 666
     K = 4.66920... Feigenbaum's delta constant

Thus K**K = B + 1 + B

Cheers, Boris J. Borcic
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python >>> filter(lambda W : W not in "ILLITERATE","BULLSHIT")