Patterns Blog

This documents how I find patterns in text. You can do it too. Ask questions, suggest text to study, report bugs, and recommend features to add. I will respond to you. -Ray

Patterns in the Koran

Let’s find the repeated phrases in The Koran (Al-Qur’an). The text is available here: [Koran] (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2800) The Koran is organized into chapters, called Surahs. There are 114 Surahs in the Koran, each divided into verses. In this Surah 49, the Moon, we find this longest repeated phrase. It is a little spooky: And how great was my vengeance and my menace! Easy for warning have we made the Koran - but, is there anyone who receives the warning?...

Patterns in the Bible

Let’s find the repeated phrases in the bible. The text is available here: [The King James Version of the Bible] (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10) First let’s look at the longest repeats, it is repeated once. In the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, we find this long phrase that says that Hezekiah’s house was fancy. The Second Book of the Kings 20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not....

Day One

This post is to just get the ball rolling. I used the Hugo static site generator and the Introduction theme.