Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today 645
suso writes ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any religion connotations). 5,555,555,555 was passed about 14 years ago. You may not realize that only 80 years ago, the population of the Earth was only around 2 billion. This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming rate in recent times, although the growth rate is almost half what it was at its peak in 1963, when it was 2.2%. Unrelated but also an interesting coincidence, the estimated number of available IPv4 addresses is getting very close to 666,666,666. It should cross over today as well.""
going to hell! (Score:5, Funny)
In an unrelated note (Score:5, Funny)
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Did you know... (Score:5, Funny)
7,777,777,777 Get! (Score:5, Funny)
Well. (Score:5, Funny)
Or a meta-meta-beast.
Re:Satanic (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:7,777,777,777 Get! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:wake me when we assign... (Score:1, Funny)
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6,666,666,666 and 666,666,666 eh? (Score:2, Funny)
*Cue's the E1M1 midi*
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Today Numerology ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Population Control & Modern Views (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Satanic (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, he can probably have two!
Re:Satanic (Score:5, Funny)
So, uh...do they sell that at Tesco?
Re:7,777,777,777 Get! (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:In an unrelated note (Score:4, Funny)
Just goes to show.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:going to hell! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did you know... (Score:2, Funny)
Okay, this is a rational number with an infinite decimal expansion, but the last digit to any precision is 8.
(Sorry, pedant).
Re:going to hell! (Score:3, Funny)
For those of us who have some self respect and respect for women, porn is a bad thing.
*Continuing judgemental stare*
Re:Did you know... (Score:3, Funny)
No 6 in that resulting number!
Re:How do they know? What about Burma? (Score:3, Funny)
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Film at 11^H^H^H^H^Hall over the Internet.
Re:going to hell! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Someone care to estmate (Score:5, Funny)
Why not? (Score:4, Funny)
Hell, he can probably have two!
Why not?
If I can have two IPv4 class Cs and a
Heck: With all the work he has to do and minions to help him, he could probably use a class A [wikipedia.org] (16,777,216 numbers).
Given that Haliburton and the US Post Office each have one and the US DOD has eleven, maybe he already does. (There WERE internet postings from a computer in the DOD named "beast".) B-)
Re:An update (Score:5, Funny)
Two people go into the building at the other side of the street.
A few minutes pass.
3 people come back out.
First the biologist notices this. And he promptly declares that nature is beautiful. The engineer, a bit more at his senses, states that obviously there simply was someone already inside the building.
But, the mathematician realizes the obvious truth, and announces "You're both wrong. If now one more person enters the building, there will be no-one left inside".
Re:How do they know? What about Burma? (Score:5, Funny)
Ha! Not if we're dead!
Re:What about...? (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, I think you're doing it wrong...
Re:And I think I see the problem (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How do they know? What about Burma? (Score:2, Funny)
Food shortages are all the rave now
Ecstasy, flashing lights, glowsticks, cargo pants, trance music, and famine.
Worst. Rave. Ever.
Good thing you weren't trying to be pedantic (Score:1, Funny)
From YOUR link
"The Number is 666 in modern biblical text"
If you are claiming that 616 is THE number of the beast, you're wrong.
Of course, you were interested in displaying a tiny bit of minutiae you picked up, but were too interested in trying to show off and got it wrong. The best you could claim is that 616 is A number of the beast.
Next time don't try so hard and you won't look so foolish.
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Re:How do they know? What about Burma? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:7,777,777,777 Get! (Score:3, Funny)
No worries! (Score:3, Funny)
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