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9 Numbers That Are Cooler Than Pi—“Beelphegor’s” Prime Number
Live Science ^
| March 14, 2019
| Live Science Staff
Posted on 04/25/2019 1:08:22 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Belphegor's prime number
Belphegor's prime number is a palindromic prime number with a 666 hiding between 13 zeros and a 1 on either side. The ominous number can be abbreviated as 1 0(13) 666 0(13) 1, where the (13) denotes the number of zeros between the 1 and 666.
Although he didn't "discover" the number, scientist and author Cliff Pickover made the sinister-feeling number famous when he named it after Belphegor (or Beelphegor), one of the seven demon princes of hell.
The number apparently even has its own devilish symbol, which looks like an upside-down symbol for pi. According to Pickover's website, the symbol is derived from a glyph in the mysterious Voynich manuscript, an early 15th-century compilation of illustrations and text that no one seems to understand.
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TOPICS: Education; History; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beelphegor; belphegor; belphegors; belphegorsprime; cliffpickover; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; math; ohsomysteriouso; pi; primenumber; primenumbers; voynichmanuscript
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To: Swordmaker
Great post!
“there are different sizes of infinite. “
Love math, LOL!
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posted on
04/25/2019 11:16:00 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
The guy quoted in the article mentions the Voynich manuscript, keyword:
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04/25/2019 11:23:40 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SaveFerris
“its about the vacuum above the props - not the downwash “
Wrong, think of “ground effect”.
But don’t feel bad, the confusion caused by Newton vs Bernouli is hilarious (and general).
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posted on
04/25/2019 11:41:05 PM PDT
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mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: mrsmith
104
posted on
04/25/2019 11:43:55 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
Wish I’d pursued it into college. Just general math. Nothing specific. Just “math”.
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posted on
04/25/2019 11:50:08 PM PDT
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mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: mrsmith
106
posted on
04/25/2019 11:52:41 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: qam1
I remember!
I also remember playing jingle bells on the push tone phones.
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posted on
04/26/2019 4:03:24 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: SunkenCiv
Don’t do that. Whenever the banned account screen pops up, I nearly have a heart attack thinking it’s me. ;)
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posted on
04/26/2019 4:18:40 AM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: InterceptPoint
I think their answering machine says “Jenny doesn’t work here!”................
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posted on
04/26/2019 6:08:25 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: FtrPilot; avacado
110
posted on
04/26/2019 6:27:13 AM PDT
by
null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
That’s not a werewolf. That’s a rearwolf. The two are often confused...
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04/26/2019 6:35:56 AM PDT
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null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: Red Badger
If your team was victorious, press ‘won’.
If you want directions, press ‘to’.
If you are an arborist, press ‘tree’.
If you are in favor, press ‘for’.
If you are a beekeeper, press ‘hive’.
If you have more than one ill person, press ‘sicks’.
If you are Norwegian, press ‘Sven’.
If you’ve been fed, press ‘ate’.
If you are German and want to say no, press ‘nein’.
If you are a WWII Japanese fighter pilot, press ‘Zero’.
If you are an astronomer, press ‘star’.
If you are British and are ringing for money, press ‘pound’...
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04/26/2019 6:45:26 AM PDT
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null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/26/2019 6:46:12 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: dp0622; Red Badger
Phi is the ‘number of God’.
/missing Shibumi, here
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04/26/2019 6:49:51 AM PDT
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Salamander
(Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
To: null and void
If you are German and want to say no, press nein. Had an engineer friend that went to Germany on a military installation job with other co-workers.
They all went to a restaurant to eat dinner the first night.
Not knowing any German, he ordered by number from the menu, Item number 9.
The waiter, thought he said 'no' when he ordered, so he didn't bring anything!.................
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04/26/2019 6:54:43 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: qam1
The number 71077345 spells ShELLOIL upside down on a calculator 5637.07734 40 with the 40 being an exponent (worked best on an HP35 series calculator) is Oh hELLO'LEgS.
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04/26/2019 7:03:08 AM PDT
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null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: Red Badger
I used to get people calling me and begging me to not answer when they called back so they could play my outgoing message for a friend...
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04/26/2019 7:15:09 AM PDT
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null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
To: null and void
Which was?.................
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04/26/2019 7:17:19 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: KarlInOhio
By comparison, the Bible is approximately 5 characters, Obviously, That should have been 5 Million characters. I think it's cool that the Bible makes a good data measurement yardstick. Most folks have a feel for how large the bible is, and once you realize that it's approximately 5MB, it puts other things into perspective.
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04/26/2019 7:22:13 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
To: Red Badger
Post 112, try to stay caught up...
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04/26/2019 7:22:16 AM PDT
by
null and void
(The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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