9 Numbers That Are Cooler Than Pi—“Beelphegor’s” Prime Number

Live Science ^ | March 14, 2019 | Live Science Staff

[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.

[Swordmaker]

Here is Beelphegor’s Prime Number:

1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001

Definitely weird and ominous.

[Red Badger]

Sometimes a number is just a number...........................

[Paladin2]

It’s almost divisible by 3%.

[Swordmaker]

1000000000000066600000000000001
Der Hl. Augustinus und der Teufel
In demonology, Belphegor (or Beelphegor) is a demon.
The creature is one of the seven princes of Hell
and helps people make discoveries.
In John Milton's Paradise Lost,
Belphegor is one of the "Principalities of the Prime."
In hell, Belphegor is the demon of inventiveness.

[qam1]

The number 71077345 spells ShELLOIL upside down on a calculator

[z3n]

that’s a creepy number

Symmetrical set

666

(2) sets of 13 zeros

(1) horn on each side

[zeugma]

Another cool number is 2^82589933-1. That is a Mersene prime, that can also be written as M82589933. It is a prime number that is 24,862,048 decimal digits long. By comparison, the Bible is approximately 5 characters, so this number is almost 5 times longer than the Bible.

[Swordmaker]

It’s almost divisible by 3%.

Is that like being close enough for government work? I hear the Democrats are contemplating passing a law making Pi equal to 3 and repealing the Law of Gravity and Boyle’s Law.

[Sirius Lee]

142 Iranians fought 154 Arabs for 69 days over 5 barrels of oil. Who won?

[Red Badger]

8675309.....that’s Jenny’s Number

[neverevergiveup]

Jenny’s Number: 8675309

[Paladin2]

~ 9.99999999999933E-31

A much smaller error than my including a hit of the % key.

[Red Badger]

too slow!.......................

[sparklite2]

My favorite is Chi square.

A chi square (χ²) statistic is a test that measures how expectations compare to actual observed data (or model results).

[Paladin2]

"Jenny’s Number: 8675309 "

Ping....

[dp0622]

I really get a kick out of your posts sometimes :)

It’s like people who using Bible counting, using every 5th letter or whatever. As if the Bible is remotely close to the original number of characters in the language it was written in.

They tested it with Moby Dick and got the same results.

Yes I believe in God. Does he send as tantalizing clues? Probably.

But if the universe isn’t clue enough, not much else is gonna make you believe...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’s the perfect number for our national debt.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

Here’s a scary number:

$22,238,723,560,561.00

[Red Badger]

6 Sigma Sigma....................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nice face on Belphegor’s butt. That would attract certain types.