If a house or apartment has a number four in it, the property will sell for much lower. The aversion for number four is so intense; it is almost at taboo. When you mention number four to an ill family member, it is considered offensive. If you give anyone anything that bears the number four, it is even considered a death threat. China avoids the number four so intensely that they even skipped bidding for the Olympics in 2004 and instead settled for 2008! Number 9 The Number of Torture Paulos, John Allen (18 November 1999). "The Way to Numerical Heaven". The New York Review of Books. 46 (18) . Retrieved 3 September 2011.

So, have you encountered any of these at 13 occult numbers lately? Do they appear in your chart? Numbers foretell vibrations and frequencies that we have to deal with and control. It teaches lessons on how to navigate life with wisdom. Do you think you need extra protection from these numbers? Enzensberger, Hans Magnus (1998). The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. New York: Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 0-8050-5770-6. a b Pakenham, Michael (11 October 1998). "Does your head need exercise? Here's just the book for you". The Baltimore Sun . Retrieved 3 September 2011. The association of 666 with evil originates from a passage in the Book of Revelations in the New Testament of the Bible. As it reads in the King James Version (13:18): Are there numbers you avoid in your life? Are you terrified of these numbers enough to develop a phobia?There have been many theories about the nature of the beast about this number. Some attribute this number to Nero of Rome. The name of Nero Caesar in Hebrew Gematria translates to 666 and is the secret code of people who are speaking against the Emperor. However, some Christian scholars argue that the beast number points to a future prophetic event that is yet to come and will fulfill the following events: An illustration by Rotraut Susanne Berner depicts the Number Devil showing a mathematical proof to Robert. The Number Devil - PC". IGN. Archived from the original on November 25, 2004 . Retrieved 5 September 2011. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. All dwelling earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Using gematria, scholars have variously decoded 666 to learn the biblical beast’s name. A leading theory deciphers 666 as Nron Qsr or Nro Qsr, taken as the Greek and Latin, respectively, for Nero Caesar. The beastly 666, then, may refer to Nero’s persecution of early Christians, though this theory has historical problems. Another similarly problematic theory identifies 666 as Muhammed, the founding Islamic prophet viewed as a false prophet in medieval Christianity. The idea of the “number of a man” or “beast” may refer to the practice of gematria in Jewish numerology, where every letter of the Hebrew alphabet corresponds to a number (e.g., aleph=1, bet=2, etc.), and words and names correspond to the sums of these numbers.a b Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Hyman Bass (January 2000). "The Number Devil book review" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 47 (1): 51–56 . Retrieved 3 September 2011. Thuy-Anh Mai, Angie. "Personal Reflections on The Number Devil". Math Horizons. Mathematical Association of America . Retrieved 16 December 2011. For a time after the fourth night, Robert cannot find the Number Devil in his dreams; later, however, on the fifth night, Robert finds himself at a desert where the Number Devil teaches him about triangular numbers through the use of coconuts. On the sixth night, the Number Devil teaches Robert about the natural occurrence of Fibonacci numbers, which the Number Devil shortens to Bonacci numbers, by counting brown and white rabbits as they reproduce multiple times. By this dream, Robert's mother has noticed a visible change in Robert's mathematical interest, and Robert begins going to sleep earlier to encounter the Number Devil. The seventh night brings Robert to a bare, white room, where the Number Devil presents Pascal's triangle and the patterns that the triangular array displays. On the eighth night, Robert is brought to his classroom at school. The Number Devil arranges Robert's classmates in multiple ways, teaches him about permutations, and what the Number Devil calls vroom numbers ( factorials).