John,

Those were really wild.

Especially:

"the 666th apocalyptic number -- 2²⁴⁵⁴ -- a long numeric string consisting of 739 digits"

I used to work with some guys who used to come up with, or solve, or numerically approximate, some intense things.

The standing joke was to test the theory, by going up to a little old lady at the meat counter, and ask her directly.

If she came up with the same solution, on the spot, off the top of her head, then the original solution must be correct.

Seriously, my brother-in-law, an actuarial analyst, believes in the mathematical perfection of the scriptures.

Obviously, you do as well.

He has used the scriptures to teach math his homeschooled children.

His approach is more like an wholistic approach, similar to Liebnitz with calculus.

In contrast to where I worked, where the Newtonian approach was used to solve realtime numerical approximations.

Using the, "as x approaches zero", but with t for time, calculating in subroutine processes repeating with sufficient frequency,

therefore there was continuous solutions of derivatives and integrals.

This provided "built-in" continuous realtime solutions, applied for a number of calculations of chemical reactions, heat & mass flow, etc.

These were used for dynamic simulations of refinery processes.

The guys I worked with. maybe did not speak original Greek, but they did speak original Geek.
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Gino, the old lady test is more rigorous than checking with a pro. LOL.
John