Am I the only one that finds this exceedingly cool? I’d totally buy one of those deeds. See you in my square inch of Hell, suckers! :3
A shopkeep from Hell, Michigan was on MSNBC today, and he says he doesn’t know where the rumor that there’d only be 666 printed of each item came from. Apparantly it came from a CNN story… -_-
You mean the media lied to me AGAIN? I hate it when people do that! ;_;
No they didn’t.
You know, Google Maps can’t find Hell, MI… either it’s a new name, or the city is so small that it’s not even on the map… -_-
[edit] - <A HREF="http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.434744~-83.985031&style=r&lvl=12&scene=4151946&sp=aN.r256718013pd_Hell%2c%20Livingston%2c%20Michigan%2c%20United%20States___
">Windows Live found it</A>, <A HREF=“http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=&city=Hell&state=MI&zipcode=&country=US&title=<b>Hell%2C%20MI%20US<%2Fb>&cid=lfmaplink2&name=”>as did Mapquest</A>. This is <A HREF=“http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Patterson+Lake+Rd+%26+Silver+Hill+Rd,+Pinckney,+MI+48169&om=1”>as close as Google Maps could get</A>.
Hell, Michigan is tiny. There’s like 3 buildings becides residental houses, including a party store, an ice cream shop, and a halloween shop, I’ve been there myself, and a friend of mine lived there at one point. It also has no association with anything demonic, the town was probably named so because a nearby river used to be awful to boat through because of all the gnarly plants and thickets, or because it was super hot and muggy or something similar, the name just stuck because of something dumb like that.
Since the first instance of the New Testiment was written in Greek, the number would have been more like this:
HHHHHH(Pi)I
(The reason I said “Pi” was because I don’t have Greek Pi as a character.)
And yes, they wrote out each and every single number (although I could have said H to the Pi H, but, again, Pi isn’t on the character map). That’s why just about every other number system in the world was better.
Of course, since it was later, it was probably written as chi, xi, digamma (you can find those in the symbols font).
Not 0. The use of 0 as a number did not come up about until about a thousand years ago.
Yeah, India has used zero since before the seventh century CE (about what Zep said). That’s the most concrete example. However, Mayans used a number to represent zero (it kinda looks like a loaf of bread or a coin with grooves) and that might have been around since the fourth century BCE. Of course, now that I’m writing this, that doesn’t really mean jack since almost nobody had contact with them.