Well, in all seriousness, koff, koff, the mathematical problem of the number of points in an area is different from the problem of whether απο really always means that its object is completed. I'd be tempted to go look at καταβολης κοσμου, myself. Are you suggesting that the sense of apo is like 'ever since'? I certainly don't read that line and think "not written in the book of life since some indeterminate time after the construction of the world."
Man, I have to be doing something else. Bummer.
The way I read Rev. 17:8, “written” is in the perfect tense which usaually means an action completed in the past. If that’s the case, the damned were left out of the book of life from the foundation of the world and “apo” is the dilineating time or separating time.
Of course, you can tell me I’m all wet and to go to he—, oh wait, I’ve been told that so many times it is probably trite now.