As multiples of 260 these three numbers have the following form:--

1,394,120 = 5362 × 260.

1,437,020 = 5527 × 260.

1,201,200 = 4620 × 260.

Some curious facts come to light with regard to their magnitude and their

mutual relation.

The two largest numbers are 165 × 260 = 660 × 65 apart; this recalls the

65-series. The third lowest number is 165 × 7280 and thus contains not only

the 65 but = 165 × 65 × 112.

The ritual year (364) and its excess over the Tonalamatl (104) is likewise

contained in these numbers, at least in the first and third:--

1,394,120 = 3830 × 364 = 13,405 × 104.

1,201,200 = 3300 × 364 = 11,550 × 104.

The three encircled numbers are connected with one another because the

first = 2 × 260 + 86, the second = 6 × 260 + 86 and the third is 86 itself.

The larger encircled numbers are, therefore, 1040 = 4 × 260 apart, and this

is also the interval between the two numbers near the bottom. 1040,

however, also = 5 × 208, and 208 is the interval from IV Eb to IV Ahau. Now

it is curious that the two numbers below are 5775 × 208 and 5780 × 208,

though the third belongs to day IX Ix and the fourth to IV Eb. One result

of this is that 1,201,200 = 1155 × 1040 and 1,202,240 = 1156 × 1040.

As these three numbers relate to day IX Ix and the 54-series, so the fourth

relates to IV Eb and the 65-series.

Here the starting-point is the number 52, which belongs to day IV Eb and

this is separated from IV Ahau by 208 days _i.e._, it divides the

Tonalamatl in the proportion of 1 to 4.

To the number 52 then, for unknown reasons was added 4623 × 260 =

1,201,980, and thus the number 1,202,032, suppressed in the Manuscript, was

obtained for the day IV Eb. To this sum the encircled number 208 was then

added and the result was 1,202,240, the number in the Manuscript.

The number = 23,120 × 52 = 4624 × 260, which is self-evident, but it also =

5780 × 208, _i.e._, it is a multiple of the encircled number. It

consequently also = 11,560 × 104, and thus it is related to the first and

third numbers just now discussed.

The position of this number is IV Ahau 18 Kankin (1 Kan) and the position

of the suppressed number is IV Eb 10 Zotz (also 1 Kan).

We ought now to discuss the last two numbers of this section amounting to

millions:--1,567,332 and 1,520,654, which are in the third and fourth

columns at the top of page 70. But before going further, we must examine

four other numbers, two of which, 111,554 and (with my correction) 101,812,

are in column 4 on the lower part of page 70, and the other two, 83,474 and

34,732, are on the top of page 73. Although these four numbers are not

ornamented with circles, they all have the significance of the numbers

enclosed in circles and are designations of differences between suppressed

and specified numbers.

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