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In the novel, the biblical number of the beast turns out to be, not 666, but $$ 6^{6^6} $$, which the professor theorizes as the number of parallel universes accessible to the protagonists. They use the expansion calculate this number to be approximately $$1.03 * {10^28} $$ 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056 $$(6^6)^6 $$, but see note (1).

protagonists believe to expand to 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056 (6^6)^6^

an unimaginably large, 36306-digit number (6&uarr;&uarr;3 in Knuth's up-arrow notation) which is