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soroban

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The Number of the Beast

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Tigeree

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Re: The Number of the Beast

Seems you have yourself a nice beast there, soroban. Seems cheap for it's worth, too.

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Monox D. I-Fly

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Re: The Number of the Beast

999 = An upside-down beat

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Jai Ganesh

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Re: The Number of the Beast

666 is the sum of the first 36 natural numbers

, i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666, and thus it is a triangular number. Notice that 36 = 15 + 21; 15, 21, and 36 are also triangular numbers; and 152 + 212 = 225 + 441 = 666.

In base 10, 666 is a repdigit (and therefore a palindromic number) and a Smith number. A prime reciprocal magic square based on 1/149 in base 10 has a magic total of 666.

The prime factorization of 666 is

. Also, 666 is the sum of squares of first seven primes:

The Roman numeral for 666, DCLXVI, has exactly one occurrence of all symbols whose value is less than 1000 in decreasing order (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1).

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