1,272,423 1,268,523 1,486,923.
These numbers are suppressed in the Manuscript. But if the encircled
numbers are added to them, viz:--121 (interval between XIII Akbal and IV
Kan), 17 (interval between XIII Akbal and IV Ahau), and 51,419 (= 197 × 260
+ 199; 199, however, is the interval between XIII Akbal and IV Ik), the
result is the three large numbers set down in the Manuscript, which have
the following properties:--
1) 1,272,544 = IV Kan 17 Xul (12 Muluc). This number = 13,984 × 91 = 12,236
× 104 = 3496 × 364. It also = 4894 × 260 + 104, the interval between IV
Ahau and IV Kan.
2) 1,268,540 = IV Ahau 8 Mol (1 Ix) = 4879 × 260 = 3485 × 364 = 74,620 ×
17. 17 is the interval between XIII Akbal and IV Ahau.
3) 1,538,342 = IV Ik 15 Zac (12 Muluc). It also = 5916 × 260 + 182. The
182, however, the half of the ritual year of 364 days, is the interval
between IV Ahau and IV Ik and between IV Ik and IV Kan. The fact that the
interval is the same in each case is clearly the reason for the choice of
the days IV Kan and IV Ik, which are otherwise not at all prominent.
It is remarkable that the third number is obtained by the addition of
51,419, _i.e._, of 197 × 260 + 199 (there are 199 days between XIII Akbal
and IV Ik). But it was evidently desirable to obtain as large a number as
this. On page 63 a number of nearly similar value is associated with it,
viz:--1,535,004. It is set down almost in the middle between the 13th and
14th Ahau-Katuns, for it is 57,902 days greater than 1,480,440, and 55,978
days less than 1,594,320.
Now, however, the Manuscript presents in the last column but one of page 31
a number, 2,804,100, which occupies a very unique position, since it is
nearly twice as great as all the other large numbers, with the exception of
those in the serpents. It must refer to the year 9 Muluc, and to the date
IV Ahau 13 Mol. It has many remarkable properties, for it is:--
1) = 10,785 × 260