Thursday, June 16, 2016

Quaint Shortcomings of This Search System

I ought to point out that my results may on rare occasion render less than all the actual results available because 3 Torah verses have "pesiktas" in them, where two "child-possukim" are actually joined into one "parent-possuk".

They are here:
Bereishis 35:22
Bamidbar 26:1
Devarim 2:8

What this means is, were your search to actually find "hits" in these 3 locations, those involved with the contained sub-sentences within them would go missing. Why? Because I do not check values of "child-possukim" within the "parent-possuk".

Take the gematria method for example. It may be the gematria of either of the two embedded verses in the one possuk could produce a hit, but these potential hits of a "child-possuk" will go missing. I only calculate the gematria of the "parent-possuk".

Concrete example:
Suppose you type in a gematria value of 383, and choosing its option: "single whole possuk".

When my program inspects the single verse Bamidbar 26:1
ויהי אחרי המגפה   ויאמר יהוה אל משה ואל אלעזר בן אהרן הכהן לאמר
                                                                       ^
... it will NOT find a match in this verse because the "whole" possuk of reference, that of the 13 words, exceeds 383. I do not inspect separately the value of the 1st 3 words, which here actually equal 383, because I ignore pesiktas!

I don't check these 6 "child" possukim on their own because when I first created my database I never considered pesiktas. And now for me to change the database structure, and all the code that references it, would be too much trouble.

(Actually there is a roundabout way to find these "hidden hits" but then you'll have to sort these out from the results buried in a longer list of results; You can use the other gematria option available: "words within a possuk"; This option will indeed find and list the hit.)

Just letting you know of this program's shortcomings.

3 comments:

  1. So with the above stated - please return the geomtric possukim as a search mode regardless.

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  2. In case any of those 6 "partial" possukim (that reside within the 3 "full" possukim [that contain "pesiktas"]) own squarish or triangular properties, they will be missed, as would any other search method that might find therein potential hits.

    Although this fault derives from an original design flaw in my database, for ignoring or being ignorant of pesiktas at the time, my website's function hasn't thereby been seriously challenged so I'd need a lot more reason to redo the entire design and re-programming.

    I just stated the flaw upfront for all to be aware of, in case the results from these 3 (that equals 6) possukim can become significant for a user's information.

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  3. please tell me you are working hard on getting all of tanach online on your creation of toraware. Visit my site to see what I found on my name! THANKS MUCH!

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