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Gideon's Three Hundred
Three hundred men, three companies, three hundred trumpets and three hundred jars, at night, around a force the text numbers at 135,000. Every one of those is a stated quantity, and together they make an acoustics problem.
Reference: Judges 7:1–22 · force size from Judges 8:10 (120,000 fallen, 15,000 remaining)
This entry computes what the camp would have heard and seen. It does not compute why the camp did what it did next, and the passage's account of that is outside the scope of this book.