Belphegor's Prime
Yesterday my Hanullis were fascinated about the palindromic and ambigramic date 22.02.2022. So they were looking for more special palindromes. Than Harvey came up with Belphegor's prime.
I blipped him when he was discussing the number with Konrad, the scientist.
I better quote Wikipedia to make no mistakes:
"Belphegor's prime is the palindromic prime number
1 000 000 000 000 066 600 000 000 000 001
(1030 + 666 × 1014 + 1), a number which reads the same both backwards and forwards and is only divisible by itself and one. It was discovered by Harvey Dubner. The name Belphegor refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell, who was charged with helping people make ingenious inventions and discoveries.(...) The number itself contains superstitious elements that have given it its name: the number 666 at the heart of Belphegor's Prime is widely associated as being the Number of the Beast, used in symbolism to represent one of the creatures in the Apocalypse or, more commonly, the Devil. This number is surrounded on either side by thirteen zeroes and is 31 digits in length (thirteen reversed), with thirteen itself long regarded superstitiously as an unlucky number in Western culture.
In the short scale, this number would be named "One nonillion, sixty-six quadrillion, six hundred trillion one". In the long scale, this number's name would be "One quintillion, sixty-six billiard, six hundred billion one"."
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