The Infamous 666
Okay, so I've been surfing some blogs this evening, and there is an amazing amount of drivel out there, er, I mean, informative things. One of the many blogs disucssing today's date -- 666 -- I came across was Bill Blahs. In his post on 666 was the following trivia/mathematical information regarding 666:
Mathematical “facts”:
The sum of the squares of the first 7 prime numbers is 666:
666 = 2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²
The sum of the first 144 (= (6+6)•(6+6)) digits of pi is 666.
A good approximation to pi is 355/113 = 3.1415929.
If one part of this fraction is reversed and added to the other part, we get
553 + 113 = 666.
The Roman Numeral representation of the number 666 (DCLXVI) uses once each the Roman numeral symbols with values under 1,000, and they occur in exact reverse order of their respective values (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1).
And Miscellaneous Trivia
“Well they said the beast would appear today", the tagline used by BMW who used the date of June 6, 2006 in its promotion of its M6 Sports Car in the UK
In UNIX and similar operating systems a file permission of 666 grants all users read and write permissions on the file.
The Apple I, Apple’s first computer was priced at $666.66.
666 is the sum of all the numbers on a typical roullete wheel.
Organic molecules are based on carbon-12, with 6 Protons, 6 Neutrons and surrounded by 6 Electrons.
The powerful insecticide Benzene Hexachloride's chemical formula is C6H6Cl6.
U.S. Route 666, “the Highway of the Beast”, was renumbered as U.S. Route 491 in 2003 after controversy erupts over the supposed reference to the Biblical beast, which unfortunately also made the road signs a common target for souvenir hunters.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- the fear of number 666
Again, this is all from his blog, so he deserves all credit.
Mathematical “facts”:
The sum of the squares of the first 7 prime numbers is 666:
666 = 2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²
The sum of the first 144 (= (6+6)•(6+6)) digits of pi is 666.
A good approximation to pi is 355/113 = 3.1415929.
If one part of this fraction is reversed and added to the other part, we get
553 + 113 = 666.
The Roman Numeral representation of the number 666 (DCLXVI) uses once each the Roman numeral symbols with values under 1,000, and they occur in exact reverse order of their respective values (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1).
And Miscellaneous Trivia
“Well they said the beast would appear today", the tagline used by BMW who used the date of June 6, 2006 in its promotion of its M6 Sports Car in the UK
In UNIX and similar operating systems a file permission of 666 grants all users read and write permissions on the file.
The Apple I, Apple’s first computer was priced at $666.66.
666 is the sum of all the numbers on a typical roullete wheel.
Organic molecules are based on carbon-12, with 6 Protons, 6 Neutrons and surrounded by 6 Electrons.
The powerful insecticide Benzene Hexachloride's chemical formula is C6H6Cl6.
U.S. Route 666, “the Highway of the Beast”, was renumbered as U.S. Route 491 in 2003 after controversy erupts over the supposed reference to the Biblical beast, which unfortunately also made the road signs a common target for souvenir hunters.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- the fear of number 666
Again, this is all from his blog, so he deserves all credit.
posted by A Garanimal @ 6/06/2006 11:56:00 PM
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