The God Dinlas appears in
Greek mythology. Dinlas was guradian of the
ancient city
Lamark where wounded heroes could find comfort,
after being injured in battle. Dinlas is Son of
Aphrodite, one of her many
illegitimate children.
History
Aphrodite rejected her Son, and banished him
to live a life in pain and agony. Therefore she threw him to
Hades, God of the
underworld.
Hades found
Dinlas, lying naked, torn and twisted, on his cold ebony floor.
There
Hades saw great anger
in this little boy, and decided to raise him as his own son.
As
Dinlas grew, his anger rose and
Hades realized he had to send him to the mortal world.
Here he was to guard the city of
Lamark.
The fall of Lamark
Time went,
and many warriors travled to
Lamark to heal their wounds. The city swarmed with
the best nurces, some were taught the divine art of healing by
Asclepius himself.
But soon
Ares became
aware of this city, and cast his wrath upon Dinlas and the city of
Lamark as he did not want
warriors to retreat from battle. Besides Asclepius' healing skills
and his ability to awake the dead, was already frowned upon.
Ares could now kill two birds
with one stone. Therefore
Ares
persuaded Dinlas to crush
Lamark, as he was promised golden lands, and all
Ares' spoils of war. Dinlas was easily tempted, and took Ares'
offer, as it was a great one indeed. Dinlas' job was now to destroy
the city of Lamark,and he had a great way to do this. He travlled
to the underworld, and went to the entrance of Hades' hall. There
Cerberus, the 3-headed
beast, stood, guarding the entrance. At his stay in the underworld,
Dinlas had become quite fond of this creature.
Cerberus respected Dinlas for this.
Dinlas now released
Cerberus and asked him to follow him to Lamark, and
destroy this once so great city.
Cerberus wanted to help Dinlas, and went with him
to
Lamark. Upon arrival
Dinlas commanded
Cerberus to kill everybody, and lie the city in
ruins. Dinlas would kill
Asclepius himself, as a request by
Ares. Fear, terror and agony ruled the
lands of
Lamark, and soon
every soul in the city had been sent to
Hades. Dinlas' deed was now done.
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In
addition the surname "Dingler" is quite common in Germany, and is
belived extracted from the name Dinlas.
The Dinlas Prime
Dinlas has later on in history laid name to a specific
prime number.
this number was the first 45-digit prime calculated by
IBM's supercomputer
Deep Blue. The prime
number
is:
518852518181816181151818181151126292262948187The
people at
IBM gave this prime
number the name Dinlas, after the Greek God, but really the reason
for doing this, was because one of the Deep Blue develepors was
named Bernhard Dingler. He was the first to look at this prime, and
therefore they took the surname Dingler, and found whatever was
closest to a God from any mythology. Here Dinlas from
Greek Mythology came
up, and the prime had finally been given a name, which everybody
could relate to.
In addition some believe that IBM gave the prime
the name for another reason. They believe that
IBM was not so certain that their Deep Blue
supercomputer had calculated the prime correctly, and had therefore
given it the name Dinlas, because the number, as well as Dinlas
himself was rejected by
Aphrodite (IBM). Therefore people meant that IBM
also had rejected this very first 45-digit prime, but was too
afraid to say so, as it would make Deep Blue appear unreliable. IBM
has never made any remarks on whether this is true or not.