[PW] Visa and the number of the beast

[Peter Macinnis]

A side issue of no real help but great entertainment value: Mosteller 
and Tukey, in "Exploratory Data Analysis" have an index entry which 
reads Beast, Number of . . . 666"  On page 666, there is a literature 
reference to the KJV, Revelation 13:18.

Having never written so long a work, I once contented myself with an 
index entry "Beast, Half of . . . 333"  Each person should be allowed 
one act of homage in their lives.  That was mine.


JT Thompson wrote:
> Disappointingly, Snopes doesn't seem to have any entry on Visa and 
> the No. of the B.

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