Mathematician deciphers hidden 'Hello Code'

A London Mathematicians claims to have discovered secret messages in the philosophical dialogues of the glossy Hello Magazine.

Could there be hidden messages or suggestions here?

As Mathematician Matt Parker was reading through the top ten articles on the Hello Magazine website on the 1 July 2010 he noticed an underlying ‘secret code’. This code enabled Hello Magazine to hide messages in articles such as “Prince Harry dashes back to Africa to be with Chelsy” to be discovered by future generations who keep up to date with the latest hot celebrity and fashion trends.

The first step is to convert the text back to its original form with no spaces or punctuation; which symbolically represents the breathless pace at which the articles should be read aloud to a waiting, scandal-ready public. The text can then be converted into lines of exactly fifteen characters in length, representing the fifteen minutes of fame awarded to any reality show contestant.

“The philosophical Hello texts fit this pattern amazingly accurately” explained Parker. “All ten articles fit to an exact number of fifteen-character lines within a 1% error”.

The code continues with other symbolic references. Parker found that in Hello’s dialogue “Kim Sears cheers on boyfriend Andy Murray to win” the number 1936 appears in the text. If you divide 19.3 by 6 you exactly twice the Golden Ration within 0.6%. What is even more amazing is that “1936” appears on line 22 of this 35 line dialogue, and the ratio 35/22 is also equal to the Golden Ratio within 1%. Clearly Hello Magazine wanted to draw attention to Andy Murray’s Golden Ratio.

Andy Murray swings his Golden Ratio

Parker used a similar technique to what historian Jay Kennedy of the University of Manchester used to discover the “Plato Code”. “It would be amazing if Plato had hidden messages about Pythagoras and Mathematics in famous dialogues like The Republic" said Parker. “But until we take a closer look, it could just be a big pile of Hello Magazine.”