666 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

• is the magic sum, or sum of the magic constants of a six by six magic square, any row or column of which adds up to 111.
• is the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 through to 36).
• was a winning lottery number in the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, in which equipment was tampered to favor a 4 or 6 as each of the three individual random digits.
• was the original name of the Macintosh SevenDust computer virus that was discovered in 1998.
• The number is a frequent visual element of Aryan Brotherhood tattoos.
• Aleister Crowley adopted the namesake 'the Great Beast 666'. As such, 666 is also associated with him, his work, and his religious philosophy of Thelema.
• Kenneth Grant, a student of Aleister Crowley, identified the symbol of the "Mark of the Beast" in the book 'Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God'. The Mark of the Beast is the 'Sigil of Nodens' - or the "Circle Cross", the symbol seen as the logo of the X Men. ISBN 0877282501