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| | Leto II & 3Jane: Numbers in Names in S/F |
 | | In such cases, numbers in names represent not only the old notion of arithmos tinos, since the name is a signifier that identifies a particular and real-world signified (an individual entity), but also Viete's system of symbolic substitution, a system that expresses signs as variables in relation to other numbers. |
 | | If not a multiplicity, the numbers and letters that constitute the name THX-1138 at least reflect the conflicts that plague this man. He is an individual, yet he is subject to the laws of the state. |
 | | Here the number is also dehumanizing, not because the characters must work like machines for the state, but because the state has determined that their human life span be limited to thirty years. |
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