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
Indian numerals Bakhshali Manuscript, written sometime before the 5th century, also included zero. But it is in Khmer numerals of modern Cambodia where the first extant material evidence of zero as a numerical figure, dating its use back to the seventh century, is found. As it was from the Arabs that the Europeans learned this system, the Europeans called them "Arabic numerals;" the Arabs refer to their numerals as "Indian numerals". In academic circles they are called the "Hindu–Arabic" or "Indo–Arabic" numerals. The significance of the development of the positional number system is probably best described by the French mathematician Pierre Simon