Sentence examples for first four numbers from inspiring English sources

Our evidence for the oath is late, but the acousmata refer to the tetraktys as "the harmony in which the Sirens sang" (Iamblichus, On the Pythagorean Life 82), which may indicate an awareness of the role of the first four numbers in the whole-number ratios which determine the musical concords.

Some people busy themselves striking up exchanges with complete strangers by guessing likely Globe subscriber numbers (the first four numbers are all the same).

The sacred decad (the sum of the first four numbers) in particular has a cosmic significance in Pythagoreanism: its mystical name, tetraktys (meaning approximately "fourness"), implies 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10; but it can also be thought of as a "perfect triangle".

The consensus picture of Pythagoras' cosmos assigns number symbolism a central role and treats the tetraktys, the first four numbers, which total to the perfect number ten, as a central concept.

Pythagoreans took oaths in the name of Pythagoras as "the one who gave the tetraktys"—tetraktys being a name for the first four numbers, whose total is ten, which was the perfect number for the Pythagoreans.

The Pythagoreans recognize two worlds, the intelligible, which has the Monad as its principle, and the sensible, whose principle is the tetraktys, the first four numbers, which correspond to the point, line, surface and solid.

The first four numbered copies of the Beatles' "White Album" were given to the Beatles.

The first two numbers seemed intended as direct comparisons.

If just the first five numbers are correct, the winner gets a second prize of $100,000.

Venus named "EleVen" for the first two numbers of her childhood house in Compton, Calif.

The first two numbers, however, kept closer to set forms and were more successful.