Excerpts from my curious mind

Also known as "The Number of the Beast". The last book of the Bible, Revelation, brings up the number 666 as being the number of the beast connected with the end of this age and the coming of the Messiah. You will find the direct reference in Chapter 13, verse 18 of Revelation. Besides that cataclysmic reference, the number 666 has quite a few very interesting properties. 666 = 3^6 - 2^6 + 1^6 666 = 6^3 + 6^3 + 6^3 + 6 + 6 + 6 There are only five such numbers!! 666 = 2^2 + 3^2 + 5^2 + 7^2 + 11^2 + 13^2 + 17^2 666 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 567 + 89 = 123 + 456 + 78 + 9 = 9 + 87 + 6 + 543 + 21 Moreover, 666 is equal to the sum of the cubes of the digits in its square (666^2 = 443556, and the sum of the cubes of these digits is 4^3 + 4^3 + 3^3 + 5^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 = 621) plus the sum of the digits in its cube (666^3 = 295408296, and 2+9+5+4+0+8+2+9+6 = 45, and 621+45 = 666). Incredibly, the number 666 is equal to the sum of the digits of its 47th power, and is also equal ...

The cyclic numbers are the numbers which when multiplied with any other number yields the same number but in some other form. The first cyclic number is 142857, which can be easily remembered as the final output of 1/7. 1/7 = 0.142857142857... So as we can see 142857 is repeated in the division 1/7, and can be easily remembered by this method. 142857 x 1= 142857 142857 × 2 = 285714 142857 × 3 = 428571 142857 × 4 = 571428 142857 × 5 = 714285 142857 × 6 = 857142 Now as we can easily see the number is just in the cyclic form in all the multiplications. For multiplication of the integers above 7, we follow the procedure given below: 142857 × 8 = 1142856 1 + 142856 = 142857 142857 × 815 = 116428455 116 + 428455 = 428571 So as you can see this number is very magical!!! Similar numbers can be found: 0588235294117647 (16 digits) 052631578947368421 (18 digits) 0434782608695652173913 (22 digits) 0344827586206896551724137931 (28 digits) 021276595744680851063829787...

Seventy three is a magical number and has so many strange properties that are rare to be found in many of the other numbers. The digits of 73, '7' and '3' when multiplied yield 21, and 73 is the 21st prime number!!! Also the reverse of 73 yields 37 which is the 12th prime number which is also a reverse of 21!!! Finding out the binary form of 73 yields 1001001 which is a palindrome!!! And that's not all 37 + 12 = 49 (seven squared) and 73 + 21 = 94 = 47*2, 47+2 also being equal to 49. This similar phenomenon or the magical property of 73 was also mentioned in "The Big Bang Theory". That's all for this edition of magical numbers, stay posted for more such numbers.

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Dell recently launched 2 very high end touchscreen smartphones in India named the 'Venue' and 'Venue Pro'.   These 2 phones boast of an amazing 5 mega pixel and 8 mega pixel cameras respectively. So you can be sure that the image quality will be very good. Both support 3G technology so you can use high speed internet right in the palm of your hands. But that is not a very exclusive feature as most new phones come with 3G. Both the phones provide a huge storage option of  8/16 GB storage and up to 48GB with microSD. Also both support a 3.5mm audio jack and supports most major audio and video formats.  The display in these phones is great. Both have a screen of 4.1" and a resolution of 480 X 800 and AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. Both the phones have the Wi-Fi connectivity option. The firmware in both the phones is very good. Venue has the new  1 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon chipset and 512 MB RAM so the perfo...

In the past there have been many extraordinary individuals performing on the stage and on the streets, doing some unexplained and unproved stuff. People bending a spoon jst by staring at it and making a paper fan revolve on a pin with jst brain waves, all this seems very confusing and strange. People in medieval age had many such myths of teachers who knew secrets so dark that could unsettle the whole world. A man from Tibet claimed that he knew an unlimited energy source which could only be reached by the power of mind, and when a person who is tired out of his potential he can then reach that energy source. Many of his students claimed that he could establish a route of energy flow in any individual. All this was unproved and remained a mystery after his sudden disappearance. Though these things seem truly unsettling but they may be true and might lead to an astonishing future. Here's a simple exercise to see if you have any psi powers:        Take a small square ...