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29 is the number of short straight lines needed to make the number 29 when it is written as words:
TWENTY NINE

 

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Seven is one of the most significant numbers across religions and culture.
To name but a few: seventh heaven, there are seven colors in the rainbow, seven days in a week, seven notes on a musical scale, seven seas, seven wonders of the world, the seven year itch, the seven metals of antiquity, seven continents, and numbers on opposite sides of a dice add up to seven.

Seven often appeared throughout the world's fictional works, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Seven Little Foys, Robin and the Seven Hoods, Seven Ways from Sundown, Seven Days in May, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Magnificent Seven. The House of Seven Gables, Seven Sweethearts, The Seven Samurai, and, of course, James Bond 007.

Seventy-Seven Movies With Seven in the Title

Schoolhouse Rock was wrong; seven is the real magic number. Whether it's the seven deadly sins, the seven cardinal virtues, or just

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[dvdclon]

Seven is one of the most significant numbers across religions and culture.
To name but a few: seventh heaven, there are seven colors in the rainbow, seven days in a week, seven notes on a musical scale, seven seas, seven wonders of the world, the seven year itch, the seven metals of antiquity, seven continents, and numbers on opposite sides of a dice add up to seven.

Seven often appeared throughout the world's fictional works, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Seven Little Foys, Robin and the Seven Hoods, Seven Ways from Sundown, Seven Days in May, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Magnificent Seven. The House of Seven Gables, Seven Sweethearts, The Seven Samurai, and, of course, James Bond 007.

Seventy-Seven Movies With Seven in the Title

Schoolhouse Rock was wrong; seven is the real magic number. Whether it's the seven deadly sins, the seven cardinal virtues, or just

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Don't forget 77 Sunset Strip, Se7en, Seven Year Itch, The Seven-Ups and The Hateful Seven (Tarantino did an update of it ).

 

[jcroy]

Seven is one of the most significant numbers across religions and culture.

I would have thought the number nine would be significant. For example, such as in "casting out nines" as an arithmetic check.

Casting out nines - Wikipedia

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I would have thought the number nine would be significant. For example, such as in "casting out nines" as an arithmetic check.

Casting out nines - Wikipedia

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Edited to read:

Seven is one of the most significant common numbers across religions and culture.

Even as someone who is not at all math-savvy, I have noticed long ago that nine is an important number, perhaps the most interesting digit in all of mathematics, exhibiting many properties that 0-8 don't.

Since then, I've always wanted to discuss the few observations I found regarding nine, with others who are more fluent in math.
Don't know if being the last single digit before the first double-digit 10 has anything to do with it or not, since I always like to know 'why' for just about anything I've heard or seen in or about this vast universe.

Got a lot of last minute holiday things to do today, but I'll try to be back before 9pm to hopefully discuss further!

In the meantime, here's one thing that I didn't know about '9':

Magic Number 9 Math Trick The Perfect Number - YouTube

 

[Clinton McClure]

To kick a chicken in the kneecap, you have to kick from behind the chicken.

 

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Replacing W with T in What, Where and When, gives you the answer to each of them, without having to ask.

 

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The words 'ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king' contain 52 letters.

There are 52 cards in a pack (excluding jokers).

 

[Clinton McClure]

George Strait recorded two different songs on two different albums with the title “She’ll Leave You with a Smile”.

 

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In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating just one olive from each salad served in first class.

 

[Malcolm R]

George Strait recorded two different songs on two different albums with the title “She’ll Leave You with a Smile”.

Interesting when that happens. Kylie Minogue did the same with a song titled "Love At First Sight". One was an album track on her debut album "Kylie" in 1987, the second was a popular single from her 2001 album, "Fever".

 

[Kevin Hewell]

In 1987, American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating just one olive from each salad served in first class.

That's just one step from eliminating all meals.

 

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That's just one step from eliminating all meals.

In Television terminology, I guess we could file this under...
That Was The Week Year Olive That Was!

 

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The 'G' in Fred G. Sanford stands for gefilte fish.

 

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Any six digit number wherein the first three digits are repeated as the second three digits is always divisible by 7, 11 and 13. Including all even digits, e.g. 286286