Signature
From AP’s “Today in History,” Nov. 19, 2006:
Today’s birthdays: … Actress-director Jodie Foster is 44….
Thought for Today: “My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.” –[Attributed to] Christopher Morley, American author and journalist (1890-1957).
A different story: Carl Sagan, Contact, Chapter 24– “The Artist’s Signature.”
Yet another story: The Pennsylvania lottery yesterday, November 18, 2006– mid-day 914, evening 945. For interpretations, see 9/14 (Feast of the Triumph of the Cross) and also the following “signature” (i.e., “denominator”):
Number theorists may prefer to
think of 945 as the smallest
odd abundant number
(Al-Baghdadi, ca. 980-1037).
Neither of these occurrences
of 945 in mathematics seems
particularly divine; perhaps there
are some other properties of
this number that make it more
credible as a divine signature–
other, that is, than its occurrence
in a lottery just in time for
Jodie Foster’s birthday.