On one side of the facsimile reproduction of part of page 136 of the
1623 folio, numbers are placed shewing that the long word is on the 27th
line, which was a skilfully purposed arrangement, because there are 27
letters in the word. There is also another set of numbers at the other
side of the facsimile page which shews that, counting from the first
word, the long word is the 151st word. How is it possible that the
revealing sentence, "Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi," can tell us
that the page is 136 and the position of the long word is the 151st
word? The answer is simple. The numerical value of the initial letters
and of the terminal letters of the revealed sentence, when added
together, give us 136, the number of the page, while the numerical value
of all the other letters amount to the number 151, which is the number
of words necessary to find the position of the long word
"Honorificabilitudinitatibus," which is the 151st word on page 136,
counting those printed in ordinary type, the italic words being of
course omitted.
The solution is as follows
HI
LUDI
F
BACONIS
NATI
TUITI
ORBI
the initial letters of which are
H L F B N T O
their numerical values being
8 11 6 2 13 19 14 = total 73
and the terminal letters are
I I S I I I
their numerical values being
9 9 18 9 9 9 = total 63
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Adding this 63 to 73 we get 136
while the intermediate letters are
U D A C O N I A T U I T R B
their numerical values being
20 4 1 3 14 13 9 1 19 20 9 19 17 2 = 151
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Total 287
The reader thus sees that it is a fact that in the "revealed" sentence
the sum of the numerical values of the initial letters, when added to
the sum of the numerical values of the terminal letters, do, with
mathematical certainty produce 136, the number of the page in the first
folio, which is 136, and that the sum of the numerical values of the
intermediate letters amounts to 151, which gives the position of the
long word on that page, which is the 151st word in ordinary type.
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