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Everybody knows that the 666 symbol is not a number, right? The symbol can be made with 3 figures-six, but they're arranged so that the three circles at the bottoms of the sixes form something like a triangle but with the circles touching - think of one six as pointing up to 12-o-clock, one pointing down to 4-o-clock, and one pointing down to 8-o-clock.. In that arrangement, the top loops look like swirling wind or something.             

              

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Everybody knows that the 666 symbol is not a number, right? The symbol can be made with 3 figures-six, but they're arranged so that the three circles at the bottoms of the sixes form something like a triangle but with the circles touching - think of one six as pointing up to 12-o-clock, one pointing down to 4-o-clock, and one pointing down to 8-o-clock.. In that arrangement, the top loops look like swirling wind or something.             

              

I do not think that is correct, actually. The stylized version is based on the number 666 having been translated at times as the "number of the beast".

Apocalypse of St. John. Chapter 13 (Douay Rheims):
[16] And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads. [17] And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six.

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