[gobucks]

A coincidence? As someone who knows a LOT about computers, thus is not likely. I would be interested as to which corporate group owns the 'Movies at Berry Square'. I wonder who works there, especially the folks in the IT support group.

That would be interesting to know ...

[TankerKC]

As someone who knows a LOT about computers, thus is not likely.

How so?

[Sloth]

A coincidence? As someone who knows a LOT about computers, thus is not likely.

On what basis do you say this? If the numbers are generated pretty randomly, or even sequentially, the chances of that particular combination coming up in a 3-digit number is 1 in a thousand (and there are a couple thousand theaters playing the movie). But it sounds like this is merely the first 3 digits in a *longer* number, and each additional digit increases the likelihood of 666 showing up somewhere in the sequence.

[Fundamentally Fair]

..is not likely.

Would it be any less likely for the three digit prefix on the tickets to be 357?

[Phantom Lord]

As someone who knows a LOT about computers, thus is not likely.

It was also not likely that on 9/11/02 that the NY Daily Numbers lotton winning numbers would be 911, but they were.

[MrConfettiMan]

"As someone who knows a LOT about computers, th[i]s is not likely."

Open mouth, insert foot. No offense, but I don't think you know as much as you think you do.

[thoughtomator]

Actually, given the number of theaters that the movie is playing in, one would statistically expect a few to start ticket numbers with "666" by pure random chance.

[MineralMan]

"As someone who knows a LOT about computers, thus is not likely. "

Hmm...more silliness.

Let's look at a scenario about how computer-generated tickets might be numbered.

Let's say that the three digit number preceding the ticket numbers represents the number of films shown in that theater, either for the year or for another, perhaps longer, time period.

First film would be 001. Second film would be 002, and so on. If the Passion was the 666th film, a ticket number might be something like 666-123. Another ticket for the same showing would be 666-124.

As someone who knows computers VERY well, this is a likely scenario.

As someone who is not looking for conspirators in every moving theater computer, I think his is just a silly coincidence.