"Well are we supposed to use his Latin name or his Greek name?" I snapped. "We could have gotten different results for both!"

"Exactly," Tuck affirmed. "There are different ways to do it. And you might not have noticed that I encoded their Greek names differently. With Nero I transliterated his Greek name to Hebrew and then used Hebrew gematria, while with Caligula I just used Greek gematria directly on his Greek name and bypassed Hebrew entirely."

"And you could have gotten different results with the different methods," I repeated.

"And in Nero's case, we do," Tuck admitted. "The Latin spelling of Nero's name is Nero Caesar, which is nrv qsr in Hebrew. Using gematria, we get 200, 60, 100, 6, 200, and 50." Want to guess what that adds up to?"

"616?"

"Bingo."

"And let me guess," I pondered. "The people who were so sure that the beast was Nero because 666 was his number, they didn't admit they were wrong. They either still claim that 616 is a typo, or they say that all along they should have been using Nero's Latin name to get 616 rather than his Greek name to get 666, right?"

Tuck laughed because he knew how contrived these gematria calculations were. "That's usually how it goes, yes. People believe what they want to believe first, then they find evidence to support it."

"Make evidence to support it is more like it," I ranted. "You know all those numerology websites that say 911 is encoded in everything surrounding September 11th? They'll make phrases using George W. Bush or Dick Cheney or the World Trade Center, and show you how the ASCII values add up to 911 in so many cases."

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