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Amusing Death Note possibilities (SPOILERS)

I was just thinking about Death Note when kip mentioned Near in a topic of mine.

For some reason the climax of Death Note entered my mind and I stared to think about the possible reasons why L mentioned to Near and Mellow that together they could surpass Kira, but individually they could not.  So I started to wonder if their odd pseudonyms had anything to do with it.

I'm also  a fan of other detective shows, so I thought I'd make a silly, yet improbable deduction on the names.  Implausible because of how simple the concept is, but I was rather surprised at the results.

I started by writing down every letter of the alphabet and under it, its index (A = 1, Z = 26).

Then I wrote out the characters names giving enough space between each character so that when I wrote a number underneath I wouldn't have to squeeze anything in. I used Ryuzaki for 'L' as well as his name as shown by wikipedia.

Then from left to right, I added all the numbers for the names, and got the following results:
Yagami Light = (25 + 1 + 7 + 1 + 13 + 9) + (12 + 9 + 7 + 8 + 20)
                         56              +          56               = 112

Near   = 14 + 5 + 1 + 18                                             = 38

Mellow = 13 + 5 + 12 + 12 + 15 + 23                                  = 80

Near + Mellow = (14 + 5 + 1 + 18) + (13 + 5 + 12 + 12 + 15 + 23)     = 118

Ryuzaki = 18 + 25 + 21 + 26 + 1 + 11 + 9                             = 111

L Lawliet = 12 + 12 + 1 + 23 + 12 + 9 + 5 + 20                       = 94

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Amusingly I thought that Ryuzaki being a larger number made sense, because he became a bigger threat to Yagami after he met him in person.  As just 'L', he wasn't able to do much more than suspect and passively speculate.  Also, I added 'w' to Mello unintentionally, most sources state there's no 'w'; however if the above is pure coincidence, it's one heck of a coincidence.

Also, yes I'm bored.
 
Yes, you are bored >_>

If you do the other characters by their pseudonyms, shouldn't you also do the same for Light (Kira)?
 

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