# Number of the Beast

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/number-of-the-beast/46102
**Category:** Offtopic
**Created:** [September 5, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/number-of-the-beast/46102 "2020-09-05T13:06:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![StevenSiew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevensiew/32/218393_2.png) [@StevenSiew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenSiew)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/number-of-the-beast/46102/1 "2020-09-05T13:06:27Z")

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julia\> using Colors

julia\> Colors.color\_names  
Dict{String,Tuple{Int64,Int64,Int64}} with **666** entries:  
“darkorchid” =\> (153, 50, 204)  
“chocolate” =\> (210, 105, 30)

Now what are the odds of that!!!

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### Author: ![chakravala](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chakravala/32/6832_2.png) [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/number-of-the-beast/46102/2 "2020-09-05T14:06:57Z")

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It’s actually not the number of the beast, but is a code that refers to the caesar Nero

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### Author: ![baggepinnen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/baggepinnen/32/693_2.png) [@baggepinnen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/baggepinnen)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/number-of-the-beast/46102/3 "2020-09-05T14:25:56Z")

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See thousands of numbers on your screen every day and expect to see most numbers \< 1000 every now and then. You probably saw 665 and 667 just the other day, but didn’t think about it.

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### Author: ![Henrique\_Becker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrique_becker/32/15443_2.png) [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/number-of-the-beast/46102/4 "2020-09-05T15:33:06Z")

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It is probably just an effect of the [Strong Law of the Small Numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Law_of_Small_Numbers).

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### Author: ![Mattriks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mattriks/32/351_2.png) [@Mattriks](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mattriks)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/number-of-the-beast/46102/5 "2020-09-06T02:45:10Z")

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And 6 is one less than the magic number 7, but not on [Discworld](https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Numerology#:~:text=Eight%20is%20the%20number%20of,is%20The%20Colour%20of%20Magic.)