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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: dp0622

Except scholars are using Hebrew when counting.


41 posted on 04/25/2019 1:46:37 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Red Badger

“too slow!.......................”

Definitely!


42 posted on 04/25/2019 1:50:03 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: sparklite2

I’m not blonde, but there’s something amiss in my brain -— high IQ, but not only is math a mystery to me, I also remember dates wrong. There’s a word for that phenomenon, but I can’t remember IT, either.


43 posted on 04/25/2019 1:52:10 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Red Badger
8675309.....that’s Jenny’s Number

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What’s the area code?

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44 posted on 04/25/2019 1:59:37 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. A)
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To: Kriggerel

45 posted on 04/25/2019 2:02:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: InterceptPoint

If you dial it in our area code, you get a real estate office in Panama City................


46 posted on 04/25/2019 2:05:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Flaming Conservative

I’m like you, although I’m not bad at math. I could never remember my parents’ birthdays, still can’t. I get my son’s birthday confused with his mother’s because one is Sept 13 and the other is Sep 20. I didn’t know it was a condition, though. Getting older makes it worse.


47 posted on 04/25/2019 2:06:14 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Teflonic

I like dividing by 9...
1/9 = 0.111111...
2/9 = 0.22222...
3/9 = 0.33333...
4/9 = 0.44444...
5/9 = 0.55555...
6/9 = 0.66666...
7/9 = 0.77777...
8/9 = 0.88888...
9/9 = 0.99999...

Is there a problem in that sequence?


48 posted on 04/25/2019 2:06:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Swordmaker

Of the 3 ‘Gas Laws’ only Boyle’s does not involve temperature, which I have long thought to be of some interest.


49 posted on 04/25/2019 2:08:03 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yep. ;)


50 posted on 04/25/2019 2:23:39 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: sparklite2

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

email LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


51 posted on 04/25/2019 2:31:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: zeugma

How about a gooleplex. Not a prime number but pretty long. 10^10^100.


52 posted on 04/25/2019 2:32:10 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: sparklite2

@hell.org ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!

i’m Freaking DYING right now LOL!!!


53 posted on 04/25/2019 2:32:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Radix

Boyle’s law is just PV=NRT with
constant temperature, constant #moles and ideal gas


54 posted on 04/25/2019 2:33:26 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: zeugma

How about a gooleplex. Not a prime number but pretty long. 10^(10^100).


55 posted on 04/25/2019 2:35:56 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: dp0622

;)


56 posted on 04/25/2019 2:37:21 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Red Badger
If you dial it in our area code, you get a real estate office in Panama City.

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LOL. I don’t suppose you ask to talk to Jenny. You’re not holding back on us are you?

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57 posted on 04/25/2019 2:40:05 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. A)
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To: Swordmaker
What about this guy?

His number is:

6.022 x 10^23

Which explains why a bullet goes further when humidity is high.

58 posted on 04/25/2019 3:02:25 PM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: zeugma
By comparison, the Bible is approximately 5 characters,

Genesis 1:1
In the

Amen.

59 posted on 04/25/2019 3:07:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: FtrPilot

Avogadro, air with more H2O is less dense that regular air. Oxygen density is 32 and nitrogen density is 28 the density of H2O vapor is 18. Air is mostly Oxygen and Nitrogen but high humidity will also contain water vapor.


60 posted on 04/25/2019 3:15:47 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer who also taught)
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