Talk:666 (number)
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Explanation For Line Removal
I removed the line
- * 666 in binary translates to 1010011010
since it duplicates what is already stated in the Docuan table. There are other things in this article that strike me as unnecessary due to obviousness, such as 666 being the 667th nonnegative integer, but I hesitate to delete them. PrimeFan 18:55, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
"See also"
What's the purpose of linking to 600 at the end? Perhaps that should be removed. —Simetrical 05:07, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC) Well, I've removed it. —Simetrical 20:03, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Way too much stuff
Okay, this is just ridiculous. Some of this is marginally interesting, but honestly, saying what Alt-666 will get you? Why not add what Unicode character 666 is? (There isn't one; it skips straight from 601 to 710.) Or how about adding what day of the week June 6, 1966 was? (It was a Monday.) I mean, come on! I'm considering the removal of:
- All "the 666th X is Y", like "The 666th non square-free number is 1701." This is not a mathematical property of 666.
- Stupidly obvious stuff, like "666 is the 333rd even number".
- The entries about <math>6^{6^6}<math> and Ü.
Any opinions? If nobody objects, I'll just delete the stuff, and narrow the entry down mostly to legitimate mathematical properties. —Simetrical 20:17, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with you, but it seems you never got around to this. Since nobody has responded to this. I will leave it a couple of days to give people time to object, then do it myself. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 20:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Hold on, it appears that some of this stuff has gone and some new junk has crept in. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 20:50, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Conjectural Phrasing?
I've removed the following from the article:
Curious indeed that the Roman Empire was the most prominent empire in the world at the time this number originally became symbolically attached to "the Devil".
It sounds conjectural and opinionated, IMHO. If anyone wishes to reinstate it, I've copied it here in case it needs to be put back in. The sentence comes after "It is also curious that the Roman numeral representation of the number 666 (DCLXVI) uses once each of the Roman numeral symbols with values under 1,000, and that they are in exact reverse order of their respective values (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1)." Mitsukai 15:25, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)