Similar to making shit up, I've seen many cases of the number fiends saying that a thing is "666" when in fact it's 2/3rds. The fact that 2 divided by 3 produces a number (in base 10) that looks like ".666" (if you ignore that the decimal has meaning) seems to cause all sorts of people to go nuts.

I do think that the Cabal use numbers as part of their religion and symbolism, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.