Probability Analysis (Papal Changes , Eclipses and Nodes on the Pisces Axis)

April 3, 2005

Dear Jay,

Given that the combination is not something that happens everyday, even happening in 5 cases is statistically very significant. Let me do some probability analysis to drive my point home.

If you randomly take a date, what is the probability that there are two successive eclipses caused by nodes in Pisces/Virgo within a month from that date? Nodes are in Pisces/Virgo during 3 years out of every 18 years. Out of these 3 years, there are at most 5 occasions of two successive eclipses. So the dates that fall within a month from such occurrence are 5x45=225 days.

So the approximate probability that any date selected at random falls within a month from an occurrence of two successive eclipses caused by nodes on the Pisces axis is

225/(18x365) = 0.03.

So there is just a 3% chance that a randomly selected date satisfies this combination. This is a very low probability event.

If we randomly select 7 dates, the probability that any 5 out of 7 dates satisfy this combination is less than 0.000001. That means one-in-million! If you randomly select 7 dates and check if 5 of those satisfy this combination, you will have success once in a million attempts on average!!

So this is statistically very significant.

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I just wanted to share the interesting observation and intentionally did not give any logic to support this.

I am not sure if what I have observed with papal transitions in the last century is due to a static feature in the chart of the papal institution or that of Jesus Christ or due to a static symbolism/karakatwa (e.g. read the nice replies to my post by Brendan Feeley and Pt Sanjay Rath on varahamihira ) or due to some dasas/progressions.

So I have no expectation of what will happen if we try this on Popes from previous centuries.

If somebody has the data of papal death dates and papal ascension dates from previous centuries, it will be interesting to analyze them.

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> Dear Narasimha,> Namaste,> > Very interesting and useful observation.> However, 90 years are only 4.49% of 2005 years, and 5 popes out of 132 are only 3.8% ... > In my opinion a too small base for drawing 'final' conclusions but a very good start...> > As a 'lover' of statistics I would have investigated the time of death of ALL the popes in relation to eclipses since the known first one, Viktor the II. who died 1057, and worked on an "academic report".> Unfortunately I don't have the time for it at this moment but enclose a list of all popes in case anyone like to delve into this adventure, (finding the date of death, nearest eclipse date and do the statistics). Otherwise I'll do it as time allows in the near future.

April 3, 2005

Dear Narasimha,

I certainly agree with you... but however, my point is that by using a known 100% population (132 popes, if all death dates are accessible) one may get some very interesting and probably surprising and useful results.

Warm regards

/Jay Weisshttp://www.alvicomm.comhttp://www.alvicomm.com/vedic.htm

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Narasimha P.V.R. Rao

vedic astrology ; ; varahamihira

Sunday, April 03, 2005 8:33 PM

|Sri Varaha| Probability Analysis (Papal Changes , Eclipses and Nodes on the Pisces Axis)

Dear Jay,

Given that the combination is not something that happens everyday, even happening in 5 cases is statistically very significant. Let me do some probability analysis to drive my point home.

If you randomly take a date, what is the probability that there are two successive eclipses caused by nodes in Pisces/Virgo within a month from that date? Nodes are in Pisces/Virgo during 3 years out of every 18 years. Out of these 3 years, there are at most 5 occasions of two successive eclipses. So the dates that fall within a month from such occurrence are 5x45=225 days.

So the approximate probability that any date selected at random falls within a month from an occurrence of two successive eclipses caused by nodes on the Pisces axis is

225/(18x365) = 0.03.

So there is just a 3% chance that a randomly selected date satisfies this combination. This is a very low probability event.

If we randomly select 7 dates, the probability that any 5 out of 7 dates satisfy this combination is less than 0.000001. That means one-in-million! If you randomly select 7 dates and check if 5 of those satisfy this combination, you will have success once in a million attempts on average!!

So this is statistically very significant.

* * *

I just wanted to share the interesting observation and intentionally did not give any logic to support this.

I am not sure if what I have observed with papal transitions in the last century is due to a static feature in the chart of the papal institution or that of Jesus Christ or due to a static symbolism/karakatwa (e.g. read the nice replies to my post by Brendan Feeley and Pt Sanjay Rath on varahamihira ) or due to some dasas/progressions.

So I have no expectation of what will happen if we try this on Popes from previous centuries.

If somebody has the data of papal death dates and papal ascension dates from previous centuries, it will be interesting to analyze them.

May Jupiter's light shine on us,Narasimha-------------------------------Free Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro.home.comcast.netFree Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAstrologer.org

SJC website: http://www.SriJagannath.org-------------------------------

> Dear Narasimha,> Namaste,> > Very interesting and useful observation.> However, 90 years are only 4.49% of 2005 years, and 5 popes out of 132 are only 3.8% ... > In my opinion a too small base for drawing 'final' conclusions but a very good start...> > As a 'lover' of statistics I would have investigated the time of death of ALL the popes in relation to eclipses since the known first one, Viktor the II. who died 1057, and worked on an "academic report".> Unfortunately I don't have the time for it at this moment but enclose a list of all popes in case anyone like to delve into this adventure, (finding the date of death, nearest eclipse date and do the statistics). Otherwise I'll do it as time allows in the near future.

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