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fimacmo
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 		[SPEC] Random Academy Bits
New to ARG too so hope that I'm barking up the right tree. Two things to throw into the pot: John Napier (e) and the Bruno Plache Stadium (Taversen). Also AH flikkr - view of London skyline.

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da5id
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 		hi! welcome at the forum.
could you please elaborate a little more on your points, whats does the "bruno plache staium" have to do with "taversen", etc.?

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fimacmo
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 		driving me slighlty mad
I'm sure that my ideas are just cluthcing at straws really but as you have probably seen if you google taversen not much comes up. Some stuff about lighting rigs but also a history of the Bruno Plache Stadium. My german is virtually non-existent and the google translation is not v helpful but the word is there. I thought perhaps it was a district of Leipzig. Don't know how this would help though.

The stuff about Napier is more plausible. Invented logarithms, Napier's constant (e), Napier's Bones and was involved in a hunt for Templar treasure amongst other things. More stuff on Napier and Dodgson (lewis Carroll Idea ) here http://www.mathnature.com/algebra/projects/individual.htm
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fimacmo
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 		Have to point out that I'm a maths dunce - numbers just blur into one another if you go above about three digits - but Napiers bone look a bit like the strings of numbers but then perhaps strings of numbers just look like other strings of numbers.

Picture of Napier's Bones

http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~greg/calculators/napier/about.html

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da5id
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 		the most probable reason why the stadium in leipzig is mentioned is because "tRaversen" is a german word for "cross-beam". it is probably misspelled on the website....

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fimacmo
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 		Thanks - I'll rule it out

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da5id wrote:
the most probable reason why the stadium in leipzig is mentioned is because "tRaversen" is a german word for "cross-beam". it is probably misspelled on the website....



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