Based on Rabbi Glazerson's experiment, we decided to run an experiment that
formally tried a number of variant spellings for the key words. The axis key word is B'LagB'Omer Ohr,
which as mentioned before literally means on the 33rd day of the Omer Light. Required are the
key words for Zohar and Kabbalah. Rashbi, which is the nick name of Rabbi Shimon
Bar Yochai. The city Meron which is the burial place of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. And the
variant ways of designating 18th of Iyar, which is the date of the 33rd day of the Omer.
The table of the key words is shown below. It specifies the experimental protocol.
The specification indicates that 48 different key word sets will be tried.
Key word table that specifies the key word experimental protocol.
Each of the 48 experiments were run with 100,000 trials. Seven of the 48 experiments had
tables whose p-values were less thatn 1/1000 and we show all seven tables.
The maximum skip was set for the axis key word so that the expected number of ELSs
is 100. The maximum row or column skip of the axis ELS must be 5 or less.
The maximum skip was set for the non-axis key words so that the expected number
of ELSs is 800. The maximum row or column skip of the non-axis ELS must be 15 or less.
The automatically determined cylinder size was 420 columns. The probability that a table
as good as the one produced by the Torah text would be produced by the random ELS placement
text population is 2.5/100,000.
The automatically determined cylinder size was 421 columns. The probability that a table
as good as the one produced by the Torah text would be produced by the random ELS placement
text population is 7.5/100,000.
The automatically determined cylinder size was 420 columns. The probability that a table
as good as the one produced by the Torah text would be produced by the random ELS placement
text population is 8.5/100,000.
The automatically determined cylinder size was 420 columns. The probability that a table
as good as the one produced by the Torah text would be produced by the random ELS placement
text population is 15.5/100,000.
The automatically determined cylinder size was 281 columns. The probability that a table
as good as the one produced by the Torah text would be produced by the random ELS placement
text population is 18/100,000.
The automatically determined cylinder size was 281 columns. The probability that a table
as good as the one produced by the Torah text would be produced by the random ELS placement
text population is 41/100,000.
The automatically determined cylinder size was 281 columns. The probability that a table
as good as the one produced by the Torah text would be produced by the random ELS placement
text population is 88.5/100,000.
Other experiments on Lag B'Omer can be found in our experiments on hidden light.
