Hidden Code Discovered by a Bestselling Author: 1, 81, 1458, and 1729
Even today, The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, is one of the New York Times best-sellers. Its Japanese version is still one of the bestselling fictions in Japan, too.
(I am not so interested in Leonardo da Vinci and his works. He is a little too pagan to deal with a kind of spiritual thing, in my opinion.)
As for nonfictions, Night, by Elie Wiesel, is one of the best-sellers in the United States. It is interesting that a Holocaust-related book written by the 1986 Nobel Prize winner is still welcomed by U.S. readers. Someday, an Arab or a Muslim may write a best-seller concerning Iraq and the wars involving the country.
In Japan, one of best-selling nonfictions today is “Kokka no Hinkaku (Dignity of Country)” written by a popular mathematician.
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The mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara is an interesting person. He has many American and European friends through his profession, which seems to lead him to deeply thinking about Japan and the world, in addition to influence of his late father, a famous novelist in Japan.
He once presented a special number which is equal to a sum of each number on each digit multiplied by a number made by reallocating each number of each digit of the sum reversely to its each digit, as follows:
1729 --> 1+7+2+9=19
19 ----> 91
19×91 = 1729
There are only four numbers in the universe that satisfy this operation: 1, 81, 1458, and 1729.
Mr. Masahiko Fujiwara is said to call this discovery the Ugly Theory. However, I don’t find any ugliness in it.
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Mr. Fujiwara is strongly against two issues: globalization and compulsory English learning in Japanese elementary schools.
The reason is that the issues are based on simple logic which is dangerous.
People think if A is B, and B is C, while A is correct, then C is correct 100 percent. But, in reality, A and B can be only 10 percent correct. Then C is just one percent correct, since 0.1×0.1 = 0.01.
A and B can be anything, but people take “globalization” as C. Accordingly, they say that globalization is 100 percent correct.
Also, A and B can be anything, but people take “trendy English learning in Japanese elementary schools” as C.
Though their nominal aims are economic satisfaction of majority of mankind and fostering international-minded Japanese in volume, their logic is really ugly.
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An example of a logic sly multinational businesses resort to is as follows:
A: Maximization of profits by expanding shares of business, which meets their real intention 100%.
B: Free invasion of untapped and undeveloped markets and economies, which assures maximization of their own profits 100% probably.
C: Selling in rosy globalization, which makes countries fully open up their market, resulting in achieving their true goal almost 100%.
Instead of using the above bare factors A, B, and C, they technically advertise to the world the following:
A: Economic satisfaction of majority of mankind (possibility 1%)
B: Promotion of local market through free trade and free entry based on wise selection by local consumers (possibility 1%)
C: Globalization as the most efficient means for achieving common prosperity (thus resultant possibility is 0.01%).
This is more sinful than ugliness.
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In 1729, Ekaterina II Alekseevna, not “Miss EU” but the eighth Czar of Romanov Dynasty of Russia, was born in a former territory of Germany.
In 1458, the Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard was rebuilt in Cambridge, England. The College has a bridge called the “Mathematical Bridge” which people thought to have been built without nails (but it was found in the 20th century that the bridge had full of nails and screws).
In 81 AD, Arch of Titus was built in Rome to commemorate the victory of the emperors Vespasian and Titus in the war against Jews. Since then, it almost took a full span of ages for Jews to return to “Jerusalem.”
In 1 AD, "Japan" then called "Wa" was split into 100 countries, some of which sent official missionary to authorities, stationed in Korean Peninsula, of Han Dynasty of China. It is recorded in an official history book of ancient China.
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There is one word that Jesus Christ has never used: ugliness.
Nonetheless, exceptionally Japanese might be allowed to say: if there are any dubious factors that might make ugly a logic, a story, history, or education, you should be on guard.
“ONLY PRAYERS CAN DRIVE THIS KIND OUT”