From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!presley Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: 666: The Number of the Beast - (nf) Article-I.D.: mhuxj.1118 Posted: Thu Feb 3 01:28:10 1983 Received: Thu Feb 3 06:54:53 1983 References: fortune.767 For a discussion of how you can get 666 from different sources, see "The Incredible Dr. Matrix" by Martin Gardner. Here are some: Take one of the Latin titles of the Pope, 'Vicarius Filii Dei', and add up the Roman numerals (use u as v) and you get 666. Add the Roman numerals in 'Ellen Gould White', the founder of the Seventh-Day Adventists, counting w as uu or vv, you can also get 666. Letting a=101, b=102, etc., Hitler adds to 666. Let a=6, b=12, c=18, etc., Kissinger adds to 666. ------ Also a few years ago 666 came up in the Pennsylvania lottery and the people who rigged it were caught and sentenced. PS. A short trivia question: who is the shortest man mentioned in the Bible?