1 Jamie: So Adam was right. There is life after death. Myth confirmed...
2 Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals: 'CEPT CHOO AIN'T LIVIN', GUV. 'S MORE LIKE "BEIN' DEAD AFTER DEFF".
3 Jamie: Nevertheless, an eternity of unbounded scientific inquiry awaits! Show me the workshops! Where's the dynamite?
4 Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals: NO DYNAMITE 'ERE, GUV.
4 Jamie: <gulp> You mean I'm in... the Other Place?

You know what?

I was just looking at this comic and wondering what the heck I could write for an annotation... and it only just occurred to me that this comic makes a reference to Hell, and it's numbered 1666, a thousand plus 666, the traditional number of the beast.

So no, that wasn't deliberately planned. I don't generally do things to tie the comic in with the comic number. I have, on occasion, but I try not to make a habit of it.

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2018-01-06 Rerun commentary: 666 is quite an interesting number, mathematically speaking.

It's the sum of the first 36 natural numbers (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... + 36 = 666), making it the 36th triangular number. It's also the sum of the squares of the 5th and 6th triangular numbers, 15 and 21 (15² + 21² = 666), and 15 and 21 themselves sum to give 36.

666 is also the sum of the squares of the first seven prime numbers: 2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17² = 666.

This isn't particularly astonishing though, since pretty much every number has some wacky mathematical properties that look amazing, until you realise that all numbers have similar things.