666 (number) on 1/149 in base 10 has a magic total of 666. The prime factorization of 666 is 2 • 3 • 37. Also, 666 is the sum of squares of first seven primes: formula_2 The Roman numeral for 666, DCLXVI, has exactly one occurrence of all symbols whose value is less than 1000 in decreasing order (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1). In the Textus Receptus manuscripts of the New Testament, the Book of Revelation () cryptically asserts 666 to be "man's number" or "the number of a
Hebrew numerals letters are reused to serve as thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands. Gematria (Jewish numerology) uses these transformations extensively. In Israel today, the decimal system of Arabic numerals (ex. 0, 1, 2, 3, etc.) is used in almost all cases (money, age, date on the civil calendar). The Hebrew numerals are used only in special cases, such as when using the Hebrew calendar, or numbering a list (similar to a, b, c, d, etc.), much as Roman numerals are used in the West. The Hebrew language has names for common numbers that range from zero to one million.