9 Numbers That Are Cooler Than Pi—“Beelphegor’s” Prime Number

Live Science ^ | March 14, 2019 | Live Science Staff

[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.

[mrsmith]

Great post!
“there are different sizes of infinite. “

Love math, LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

The guy quoted in the article mentions the Voynich manuscript, keyword:

• Are we closer to solving the mystery of the 600-year-old Voynich manuscript? [2018]
• Breakthrough over 600-year-old mystery manuscript [Voynich] [2014]
• ...Revolutionary Analysis Unlocking Mysteries of 500-Year-Old... [Voynich Manuscript] [2014]
• The internet mystery that has the world baffled [2013]
• Secret of Voynich Manuscript, an Ancient Book Written in 'Alien' Code, Partly Revealed [2011]
• University of Arizona experts determine age of book 'nobody can read' (Voynich manuscript) [2011]
• Top 10 uncracked codes [2011]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day [2010]
• The Mystery Of The Voynich Manuscript [2008]
• The Mystery Of The Voynich Manuscript (New) [2004]
• The Voynich manuscript - Another twist in the tale (((Democrat play book I'd guess))) [2004]
• World's Most Mysterious Book May Be A Hoax (Voynich) [2003]
• Strange Artifacts - Voynich Manuscript [2003]
• The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (APOD) [2002]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 8-26-02 [2002]

[mrsmith]

“it’s 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).

[SaveFerris]

Yeah it’s fun stuff

[mrsmith]

Wish I’d pursued it into college. Just general math. Nothing specific. Just “math”.

[SaveFerris]

;)

[trebb]

I remember!
I also remember playing jingle bells on the push tone phones.

[sparklite2]

Don’t do that. Whenever the banned account screen pops up, I nearly have a heart attack thinking it’s me. ;)

[Red Badger]

I think their answering machine says “Jenny doesn’t work here!”................

[null and void]

Ah yes. Avocado’s number

[null and void]

That’s not a werewolf. That’s a rearwolf. The two are often confused...

[null and void]

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’...

[Red Badger]

666 +/-50...............

[Salamander]

Phi is the ‘number of God’.

/missing Shibumi, here

[Red Badger]

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!.................

[null and void]

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.

[null and void]

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...

[Red Badger]

Which was?.................

[zeugma]

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.

[null and void]

Post 112, try to stay caught up...