PARSHA MATH
אלה פקודי - 236
Other items with numerical value equaling 236:
- Four Names of G-d: ע"ב ס"ג ב"ן מ"ה, plus one for each word (4)
- Vessels of Azilus (כח הגבול) (ראה צמח צדק פקודי ב'רלו-ז)
- 2 times 100, plus 2 times Chai
- Holy Basin in the Mishkan כיור
- מעז (משלי ח, כב) מפעליוהוי' קנני ראשית דרכו קדם “HaShem created me as the beginning of His way; the first of his works of old”
- Completion of the Hebrew letters משכן - ון(נ) ף(כ) ין(ש) ם )מ(
- עשה דברו (יואל ב, יא) עצוםכי “He who executes His Word is strong”
- (תהילים קמז, ה) ורב כחדונינו -גדול א “Great is our Master, and abounding in might”
MATHTOID
236 is the number of Hamiltonian circuits of a 4×8 rectangle
Hamiltonian Circuit, named for Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton, is a circuit (a path that ends where it starts) that visits each vertex once without touching any vertex more than once. There may be more than one Hamilton path for a graph, and then we often wish to solve for the shortest such path. This is often referred to as a traveling salesman or postman problem.
The puzzle was distributed commercially as a pegboard with holes at the nodes of the dodecahedral graph, illustrated below. The Icosian Game was invented in 1857 by William Rowan Hamilton. Hamilton sold it to a London game dealer in 1859 for 25 pounds, and the game was subsequently marketed in Europe in a number of forms (Gardner 1957).
