Recently I have realised a
Profound Truth; the 6502
microprocessor, which we all know and love, is fully compliant with the
Law of Fives. Look at this for proof:
1) One of the most common sequences of instructions on the 6502
is "LDA #$baz ; STA $foobar"; in machine language this is (as
anyone who has typed in source listings from old Commodore
magazines will know) 169 baz 141 bar foo. There are _five_
bytes in this, _two_ in the first instruction and _three_ in
the second. The bicycle and the tricycle, as Adam Weishaupt
named them; this has the same rhythm as "abracadabra", and
the Crowleyan "Io Pan! Io Pan Pan!", and "Annuit Coeptis;
Novus Ordo Saeclorum", and "Hail Mary, Full of Grace".
Need I say more?
2) The opcode for "LDA #$" is 169, the opcode for "STA $"
(non-zero-page) is 141. 169-141=28, which is 23+5. Go figure.