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.

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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?