My Favorite Examples of Numerology

Compiled by Paul Bourke


Bill Gates and the "sign of the beast"

Revelations (Bible)
"Woe to you, oh earth and sea. For the Devil sends the Beast with wrath because he knows the time is short. Let him who hath understanding reckon the Number of the Beast, for it is a human number. It's number is six hundred and sixty-six."

The full name is William Henry Gates III, now more commonly known as Bill Gates (III). Converting the uppercase letters of his name into ascii codes (the standard representation of letters on computers) one gets the following

       B   I   L   L   G   A   T   E   S   III
       66  73  76  76  71  65  84  69  83  3

The sum of all these ascii codes is 666