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Cardinal | seventy-seven | |||
Ordinal | 77th (seventy-seventh) | |||
Factorization | 7 × 11 | |||
Divisors | 1, 7, 11, 77 | |||
Greek numeral | ΟΖ´ | |||
Roman numeral | LXXVII | |||
Binary | 10011012 | |||
Ternary | 22123 | |||
Senary | 2056 | |||
Octal | 1158 | |||
Duodecimal | 6512 | |||
Hexadecimal | 4D16 |
77 (seventy-seven) is the natural number following 76 and preceding 78. Seventy-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring five syllables in English.
77 is:
It is possible for a sudoku puzzle to have as many as 77 givens, yet lack a unique solution. [6]
It and 49 are the only 2-digit numbers whose home primes (in base 10) have not been calculated.
During World War II in Sweden at the border with Norway, "77" was used as a shibboleth (password), because the tricky pronunciation in Swedish made it easy to instantly discern whether the speaker was native Swedish, Norwegian, or German. [7]
In the Islamic tradition, "77" figures prominently. Muhammad is reported to have explained, "Faith has sixty-odd, or seventy-odd branches, the highest and best of which is to declare and believe that there is no god but Allah without any equals or highers and anyone worthy of worship, and the lowest of which is to remove something harmful from a road. Shyness, too, is a branch of faith." While some scholars refrain from clarifying "sixty-odd or seventy-odd", various numbers have been suggested, 77 being the most common. [8] Some have gone so far as to delineate these branches. [9]
The Gospel of Luke lists 77 generations from Adam to Jesus. [10] In the Gospel of Matthew Peter asks, "How many times shall I forgive my brother?". Jesus replies, "Seventy-seven times." However this was not intended as literal quantitative instruction. Additionally, depending on the manuscript used for a given New Testament eclectic [11] [ circular reference ] translation, the result is 77 or 490 (70*7) as it is seen in the King James Version.
In the Book of Genesis, Chapter 4, Lamech says to his wives, "hear my voice ... hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young man for bruising me; If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold." [12]
In certain numerological systems based on the English alphabet, the number 77 is associated with Jesus Christ. CHRIST is C = 3, H = 8, R = 18, I = 9, S = 19, T = 20, which added together equal 77.
'Liber 77' is the gematrian name for Liber OZ- a brief but popular publication by Aleister Crowley. The word 'oz', which means 'strength', is composed of two Hebrew letters- ayin and zayin, which have gematrian values of 70 and 7 respectively, thus adding up to 77.
Seventy-seven is also:
21 (twenty-one) is the natural number following 20 and preceding 22.
25 (twenty-five) is the natural number following 24 and preceding 26.
28 (twenty-eight) is the natural number following 27 and preceding 29.
27 is the natural number following 26 and preceding 28.
76 (seventy-six) is the natural number following 75 and preceding 77.
69 (sixty-nine) is the natural number following 68 and preceding 70.
81 (eighty-one) is the natural number following 80 and preceding 82.
79 (seventy-nine) is the natural number following 78 and preceding 80.
55 (fifty-five) is the natural number following 54 and preceding 56.
57 (fifty-seven) is the natural number following 56 and preceding 58.
64 (sixty-four) is the natural number following 63 and preceding 65.
68 (sixty-eight) is the natural number following 67 and preceding 69. It is an even number.
300 is the natural number following 299 and preceding 301.
400 is the natural number following 399 and preceding 401.
700 is the natural number following 699 and preceding 701.
135 is the natural number following 134 and preceding 136.
177 is the natural number following 176 and preceding 178.
288 is the natural number following 287 and preceding 289. Because 288 = 2 · 12 · 12, it may also be called "two gross" or "two dozen dozen".
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has garnered attention throughout history in part because distal extremities in humans typically contain five digits.
744 is the natural number following 743 and preceding 745.
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