Belphegor's prime
Appearance
Belphegor's prime is the
superstitious elements that have given it its name: the number 666 at the heart of Belphegor's Prime is widely associated as being the Number of the Beast, used in symbolism to represent one of the creatures in the Apocalypse or, more commonly, the Devil. This number is surrounded on either side by thirteen zeroes and is 31 digits in length (thirteen reversed), with thirteen itself long regarded superstitiously as an unlucky number
in Western culture.
In the
long scale
, this number's name would be "one quintillion, sixty-six billiard, six hundred billion one".
See also
References
- ^ Singh, Simon (31 October 2013). "Homer Simpson's scary maths problems". BBC News. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ^ Pickover, Clifford. "Belphegor's Prime: 1000000000000066600000000000001". Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
External links
- Belphegor's Prime: 1000000000000066600000000000001 from Clifford Pickover
- Belphegors's Prime and the Belphegor's numbers sequence (A232449) at The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences