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Belphegor's Prime. It's a prime number that is also a palindrome. It's named after the Prince of Hell for ingenious inventions because it contains two sets of 13 zeroes with 666 in the center. The palindromic prime number is 1000000000000066600000000000001.

All the numbers on the roulette wheel add up to 666.

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1. The Bible was badly translated at one point, leading to the common misconception that the Devil's number is 666. It is actually 616

2. In the oldest preserved manuscript of revelations the number of the beast is 616, not 666.

3. All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

4. U.S Route 666, nicknamed "The Devil's Highway" was renamed to Route 491 in 2003, and within days of the announcement all the old signs containing the number 666 were stolen as souvenirs.

5. Roulette is called the devils game because if you add up all the numbers the final total is 666

6. Papyrus 115, fragments of a page of the Book Of Revelation from the 3rd Century CE that gives the "Number of the Beast" as 616 rather than 666

7. A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616

8. The sum of the numbers on a roulette wheel equals "666"

9. The most expensive number sold was cell phone number 666-6666, auctioned off for charity in Qatar. It sold for $2.7 million. The Chinese number 8888-8888 sold for $280,000.

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The numbers on the roulette wheel adds to 666

An irrational fear of the number 666 is called hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia and was responsible for the renaming of US Route 666 to US Route 491 in 2003. - source

Marshall Ledbetter. American photographer, psychedelics enthusiast and unconventional protester. In 1991 he broke into the Florida State Capitol building and phoned a number of odd demands. Amongst them was 1 large veggie pizza, 1 ounce of weed and 666 donuts for the cops. - source

Nero Caesar" transliterated from Greek into Hebrew is "Nrwn Qsr", the numerical equivalent is "hexakosioi hexekonta hex" (Arabic numeral: 666). As Nero was seen as Antichrist, his numerical equivalent "666" became the "number of the beast".

The sum of all the numbers on the roulette wheel is 666, the “Number of the Beast” - A legend says that François Blanc supposedly bargained with the devil to obtain the secrets of roulette. - source

The fear of the number 666, hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia, is not only very hard to pronounce, but also that there was a rumor that Ronald and Nancy Reagan were hexakosioihexekontahexaphobics, having had the number of their house in Bel-Air changed from 666 to 668

The "Number of the Beast" likely originated as a stealthy critique of Emperor Nero, who's name translates to "666" in Aramaic and Hebrew numerology.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority officially recognizes port 666 as the port for the First Person Shooter: Doom

Doom's sound track contains the numbers 666 and a pentagram when ran through a spectogram

The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666

The most expensive phone number in the world is 666-6666 and it was sold at an auction in 2006 for £1.5 million.