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Longer pieces on specific questions: individual numbers, cipher comparisons, and the places where popular claims come apart under checking.
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English Ordinal vs Reverse Ordinal
Two ciphers, one alphabet, and a symmetry that produces more matches than people expect.
Mispar Gadol vs Mispar Hechrachi
The final letters, the few hundred point gap, and how to tell which method a source used.
What 666 Actually Decodes To
The 616 manuscript variant is the strongest clue, and it points away from Greek.
Why 18 Means Life in Judaism
Chai, the custom of giving in eighteens, and one of the few gematrias still in daily use.
The Tetragrammaton and the Number 26
Four letters, one total, and why 26 turns up throughout Hebrew commentary.
Sumerian Gematria Has Nothing to Do With Sumer
Where the name came from, what the cipher actually is, and why its totals look impressive.
Pythagorean Gematria vs Modern Numerology
The same arithmetic, two different claims, and a name that misattributes both.
Why Two Words Share a Value
The birthday problem applied to gematria, and the number of matches you should expect.
The Transliteration Trap in Hebrew Name Gematria
Spelling an English name in Hebrew involves choices that can swing the total by hundreds.
Is Gematria Real? What Can and Cannot Be Claimed
Separating the documented history from the modern claims, without dismissing either unfairly.
What Simple Gematria Actually Means
The name causes more confusion than the method, because two different ciphers answer to it.
Hebrew Numerology: What the Term Covers
Where gematria ends and modern numerology begins, and why the two get merged.
How to Use a Gematria Calculator
Reading the output properly, and the four settings that decide what number you get.
Bible Codes Are Not Gematria
Equidistant letter sequences and letter values are different claims with different evidence.
Greek Beta Code: Typing Greek Without a Greek Keyboard
The transliteration scheme behind most digital Greek corpora, and how to use it.
How These Are Written
Every number quoted in these articles was calculated with the tools on this site and can be reproduced with them. Where an article makes a historical claim, it says what the evidence is, and where the evidence is weak it says that too. The 666 article is the clearest case: the Nero reading is presented as strong specifically because the 616 manuscript variant is evidence nobody selected for, and that distinction is the whole argument.
Several of these pieces disagree with claims that circulate widely. That is deliberate rather than contrarian, and in each case the disagreement is with a specific claim and a stated reason, not with the subject itself.
Where to Start
If you are new to the subject, the lessons are the better entry point: they build in order and assume nothing. These articles are for specific questions, and most of them exist because the popular answer is either wrong or unfalsifiable.
Every figure quoted here can be reproduced. Paste the word into the calculator and check it against the letter charts rather than taking the number on trust.