7 (number)

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Cardinal	7 seven
Ordinal	7th seventh
Numeral system	septenary
Factorization	prime
Divisors	1, 7
Roman numeral	VII
Roman numeral (Unicode)	Ⅶ, ⅶ
Chinese numeral	七
prefixes	hepta-/hept-
Binary	111
Octal	7
Duodecimal	7
Hexadecimal	7
Arabic	V (سبعة)
Hebrew	ז (Zayin)

Seven (7) is the sixth successor of one (1).

Contents 1 In mathematics 1.1 In numeral systems 1.2 List of basic calculations 2 Evolution of the glyph 3 In science 3.1 Chemistry 3.2 Astronomy 4 In technology 5 In the Classical world 6 In religion 7 In mythology 8 In psychology 9 In music 9.1 Albums 9.2 Songs 10 In television 11 In film 12 In Video Games 13 In sports 14 In other fields 14.1 Names and titles 15 Notes 16 See also 17 External link

[edit] In mathematics

• Seven is the 4th prime number.
• Seven is a Mersenne prime, since 2³ - 1 = 7.
• Seven is the fourth Mersenne prime exponent.
• Seven is the first Newman-Shanks-Williams prime.
• Seven is the third Lucas prime.
• Seven is the first Woodall prime.
• Seven is the second lucky prime.
• Seven is the second safe prime.
• Seven is the fourth factorial prime
• Seven is both a Carol number and a Kynea number.
• Seven is the smallest number that can't be represented as a sum of fewer than four non-zero squares.
• Seven is a self number.
• Seven is the smallest happy number, except for the trivial example of 1.
• Although the divisible by seven (7) test is not well known (especially compared to the popular divisible by three (3) test), there is an easy way to test if a natural number is evenly divisible by seven (7). See also Divisibility rule.

1. Remove the last digit,
2. Double it, and
3. Subtract it from the remaining digits.
4. If the result is negative and there are 2 or more digits, drop the negative sign.
5. Repeat until you end up with a result that is a multiple of seven (7). (i.e. -7, 0, or +7)

For example, the number 1358 is evenly divisible by seven, since:

135 - (8*2) = 119

11 - (9*2) = -7

Using Number Theory the proof is rather easy, once we rewrite the number n in the form:

n = 10a + b

Where:

a is the remaining digits, and

b is the last digit.

Then:

10a + b = 0 (mod 7)

5 * (10a + b) = 0 (mod 7)

49a + a + 5b = 0 (mod 7)

a + 5b - 7b = 0 (mod 7)

a - 2b = 0 (mod 7)

A second divisibility rule was formulated in 2006 in India, by Himanish Ganjoo, a Class 8 student in St. Columba's School Delhi:

1. Remove the last two digits
2. Divide the remaining number by 7
3. Multiply the remainder by 2
4. Add the product to the last two digits
5. If the sum is divisible by 7, the number is also divisible

If the sum is divisible by 7, the number is also divisible

On March 25, 2007, Ganjoo formulated another variant form of this test, now separating the last 3 digits (in step 1), and multiplying the remainder by 6 (step 3), and then adding the sum to the last 3 digits (originally separated).

For example, 1568 is divisible by 7,

1. 15/7 Remainder = 1
2. Product 1*2 = 2
3. 68 + 2 = 70 (which is divisible by 7)

Hence, 1568 is divisible by 7

• 999,999 divided by 7 is exactly 142,857, so vulgar fractions with 7 in the denominator have six-digit repeating sequences in their decimal expansions. 1/7 = 0.142857142....
• A seven-sided polygon is a heptagon. The regular n-gons for n ≤ 6 can be constructed by compass and straightedge alone, but the regular heptagon cannot. Figurate numbers representing heptagons (including seven) are called heptagonal numbers. Seven is also a centered hexagonal number.
• There are seven frieze groups, the groups consisting of symmetries of the plane whose group of translations is isomorphic to the group of integers.
• A group or a series of seven is a heptad.
• 7 is the only dimension, besides the familiar 3, in which a vector cross product can be defined

[edit] In numeral systems

Base	Numeral system
2	binary	111
3	ternary	21
4	quaternary	13
5	quinary	12
6	senary	11
7	septenary	10
over 7 (octal, decimal, etc)		7

In quaternary, 7 is the smallest prime with a composite sum of digits.

[edit] List of basic calculations

Multiplication	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20		21	22	23	24	25		50	100	1000
	7	14	21	28	35	42	49	56	63	70		77	84	91	98	105	112	119	126	133	140		147	154	161	168	175		350	700	7000

Division	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	11	12	13	14	15
	7	3.5		1.75	1.4		1	0.875		0.7
				0.5
							1
				2

Exponentiation	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10		11	12	13
	7	49	343	2401	16807	117649	823543	5764801	40353607	282475249		1977326743	13841287201	96889010407
	1	128	2187	16384	78125	279936	823543	2097152	4782969	10000000		19487171	35831808	62748517

Radix	1	5	10	15	20	25	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100
	110	120	130	140	150	200	250	500	1000	10000	100000	1000000
	1	5

[edit] Evolution of the glyph

In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase J upside down. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the character more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the character from a 6-look-alike into an uppercase V-look-alike. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke character consisting of a horizontal upper line joined at its right to a line going down to the bottom left corner, a line that is slightly curved in some font variants. As is the case with the European glyph, the Cham and Khmer glyph for 7 also evolved to look like their glyph for 1, though in a different way, so they were also concerned with making their 7 more different. For the Khmer this often involved adding a horizontal line above the glyph. This is analogous to the horizontal stroke through the middle that is sometimes used in handwriting in the Western world but which is almost never used in computer fonts. This horizontal stroke is, however, important to distinguish the glyph for seven from the glyph for one in writings that use a long upstroke in the glyph for one.

On the seven-segment displays of pocket calculators and digital watches, 7 is the number with the most common glyph variation (0, 6 and 9 also have variant glyphs). Most calculators use three line segments, but on Sharp, Casio, and a few other brands of calculators, 7 is written with four line segments. The reason is that in Japan & Korea 7 is written as ① in the illustration to the right.

In fonts with text figures, 7 usually has a descender, for example, .

[edit] In science

• The number of spots on a common ladybug.
• With very few exceptions, all mammals' necks have seven bones.

[edit] Chemistry

• The atomic number of nitrogen.
• The number of periods, or horizontal rows of elements, on the periodic table.
• The number of carbon atoms in heptane, a hydrocarbon.
• The neutral pH - the pH level of pure water.

[edit] Astronomy

• The number of stellar objects in the solar system visible to the naked eye — the Sun, the Moon and the five classical naked eye planets: Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn.
• Messier object M7, a magnitude 3.5 open cluster in the constellation Scorpius.
• The New General Catalogue object NGC 7, a 14th magnitude spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor.
• The number of daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades (also called the "seven sisters").
• The number of saints appearing in a constellation called "Saptharishi Mandalam" in Indian astronomy.
• The number of stars in the constellation of Ursa major.
• The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -2590 April 8 and ended on -1310 May 16. The duration of Saros series 7 was 1,280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses.
• The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -2595 July 15 and ended on -1008 February 22. The duration of Saros series 7 was 1,586.6 years, and it contained 89 lunar eclipses.
• The Roman numeral VII stands for white dwarfs in the Yerkes spectral classification scheme.
• The Roman numeral VII (usually) stands for the seventh-discovered satellite of a planet or minor planet (e.g., Jupiter VII).

[edit] In technology

• The code for international direct dial phone calls to Russia and Kazakhstan.
• The number of digits in an American or Canadian telephone number, excluding the area code.
• The number of individual segments in one digit on a digital clock or calculator seven-segment display screen.
• In Microsoft's Rich Text Format specification, seven and all numbers congruent to it modulo 256 refer to variants of the German language.
• In the ASCII character set, the bell character.
• A global push email provider from Redwood City, California: SEVEN Networks, Inc.
• An e-commerce company from Cancún, Mexico: Seven Global.
• There are Seven Tools of Quality.
• There are seven layers in the OSI model.

[edit] In the Classical world

• Seven against Thebes
• Seven hills of Rome
• Seven Liberal Arts
• Seven Sages
• Seven Wonders of the ancient world
• Seven emperors (and period; Rome, history):
  • Julius Caesar, Augustus, Galba, Hadrian, Nerva, Sallust, Vespasian

[edit] In religion

• In Islam:
  • The number of ayat in surat al-Fatiha.
  • The number of heavens in Islamic tradition.
  • The number of Earths in Islamic tradition.
  • The numbers 7, 70, 70,000, etc. are used in Islamic traditions to denote an infinite or high number. In Arabic, 70, 70,000, etc. are used to mean infinite. This is because 1 is the smallest number, 2 is just after 1, 5 and 10 are exact, 4 and 6 are just before and after 5, and 9 is just before 10. This leaves 3, 7, and 8. Eight is closer to the end although it is larger. Eight is also an even number, so divisible by 2. Between 3 and 7, 3 is smaller, so 7 is chosen to represent infinite.

• In Judaism:
  • A highly symbolic number in the Torah, alluding to the infusion of spirituality and Godliness into the Creation. For example:
  1. God rested on and sanctified the seventh day (Shabbat).
  2. A seven-day purification period is required for one who has become tamei to become tahor.
  3. The Shemittah (Sabbatical) year arrives every seventh year.
  4. The Jubilee (Yovel) year comes after 7 times 7 years.
  5. The Counting of the Omer leading up to the Giving of the Torah is expressed as "7 times 7 weeks."
  • The weekly Torah portion is divided into seven aliyahs, and seven men or boys over the age of 13 are called up for the reading of these aliyahs during Shabbat morning services.
  • Seven blessings are recited under the chuppah during a Jewish wedding ceremony.
  • David was the seventh son of Jesse.
  • A Jewish bride and groom are feted with seven days of festive meals after their wedding, known as Sheva Berachot ("Seven Blessings").
  • The number of Ushpizzin (also known as the "Seven Shepherds") who visit the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David.
  • The number of nations God told the Israelites they would displace when they entered the land of Israel (Deut. 7:1): the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • In Breslov tradition, the seven orifices of the face (2 eyes, 2 nostrils, 2 ears, and the mouth) are called "The Seven Candles."
  • The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה), is a seven branched candelabrum lit by olive oil in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem. The menorah is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people. It is said to symbolize the burning bush as seen by Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25).

• In Christianity:
  • The number of churches of Asia to which the "Book of Revelation" is addressed.
  • The number of the Seven Virtues: Chastity, Moderation, Liberality, Charity, Meekness, Zeal, and Humility, corresponding to the seven deadly sins.
  • The seven terraces of Mount Purgatory (one per deadly sin).
  • The number of sacraments in the Roman Catholic faith, and most reformed traditions.
  • The number of heads of the beast of the Book of Revelation, and of some other monsters, like the hydra and the number of seals.
  • In the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew 18:21, Jesus says to Peter to forgive seventy times seven times.^[1]
  • The number of times Cain will be avenged by God if he is murdered (Gen 4:15).
  • The number seven is considered by many Christians to be a perfect number because of the amount of importance the Bible puts on it specifically, whereas the number six is considered imperfect.
  • In Roman Catholicism, and some reformed traditions, the Blessed Virgin Mary has Seven Joys: The Incarnation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Visit of the Magi, the Finding of Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, the Resurrection of Christ, and The Assumption of Mary into Heaven.
  • In Roman Catholicism, and some reformed traditions, the Blessed Virgin Mary has Seven Sorrows: The Prophecy of Simeon, the Flight into Egypt, the Three Day Loss of the Christ Child in the Temple of Jerusalem, the Carrying of the Cross, the Crucifixion of Christ, the Pieta, and the Closing of the Holy Sepulchre.
• In the genealogy in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is 77th in a direct line.

• Others:
  • The number of Archangels according to some systems.
  • The minor symbol number of yang from the Taoist yin-yang.
  • The number of palms in an Egyptian Sacred Cubit.
  • The number of ranks in Mithraism.
  • The number seven is of particular significance within Cherokee cosmology.
  • In Buddhism, Buddha walked 7 steps at his birth.

[edit] In mythology

• In Khasi mythology, the seven divine women who were left behind on earth and became the ancestresses of all humankind.
• The number of gateways traversed by Inanna during her descent into the underworld.
• The number of sleeping men in the Christian myth of the "Seven Sleepers."
• The number of sages in Hindu mythology; their wives are the goddesses referred to as the "Seven Mothers."
• The number of main islands of mythological Atlantis.
• In Guaraní mythology, the number of prominent legendary monsters.
• Seven Lucky Gods exist in Japanese mythology.
• In British Folk lore, every 7 years the Farie Queen pays a tithe to Hell (or possably Hel) in the tale of Tam Lin.
• In the British Folk tale of Thomas the Rhymer, he went to live in the farie kingdom for 7 years.

[edit] In psychology

• The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two is a 1956 paper by cognitive psychologist George Miller, who found a correlation between various human cognitive capacity limits within the range 7±2.
• When asked to choose a number between 1 and 10, the most common number chosen appears to be 7.^{[citation needed]} This choice appears to be driven by people's idea of the properties a random number should have.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] In music

• The number of notes in the traditional Western musical scale.
• The original diameter in inches of the 45rpm format gramaphone record.
• In music, the Roman numeral vii is the subtonic (bVII) or leading tone (VII) scale degree, chord, or diatonic function, when distinguished V = major and v = minor.
• The number of completed, numbered symphonies of Jean Sibelius and Sergei Prokofiev.
• A pop music singer in South Korea : 세븐 ; SE7EN (singer).
• A five-piece teenybopper band from the late 1980s.
• A current band called Seven Mary Three.
• A band from the 1990s: Seven Red Seven.
• In the late 1990s a band called S Club 7 was created by Simon Fuller under 19 management.
• The "Unsquare Dance" by Dave Brubeck is in septuple meter--seven beats to a measure.
• Seven is part or all of the name of many musical works:

[edit] Albums

• A 2004 album by Sufjan Stevens: see Seven Swans.
• A 2004 album by Gackt: see The Seventh Night: Unplugged.
• A 2004 album by The Tea Party: see Seven circles (Tea Party album.
• A 2003 album by Atmosphere: see Seven's Travels.
• A 2003 album by Enrique Iglesias: see 7 (Enrique Iglesias album).
• A 2002 EP by U2: see 7 (EP).
• A 2000 album by S Club 7: see 7 (S Club 7 album).
• A 1999 album by Avenged Sevenfold, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
• A 1997 album by Zap Mama: see 7 (Zap Mama album).
• A 1996 album by Apoptygma Berzerk: see 7 (Apoptygma Berzerk album).
• A 1996 album The Don Killuminati: The 7-Day Theory by Tupac Shakur.
• A 1992 album by James: see Seven (James album).
• A 1986 album by George Strait: see 7 (George Strait album).
• A 1985 album by David Meece: see 7 (David Meece album).
• A 1983 album by Duran Duran.
• A 1981 album by Madness: see 7 (Madness album).
• A 1980 album by Jon Anderson: Song of Seven
• A 1974 album by Poco.
• A 1974 album by Bob Seger: see Seven (Bob Seger album).
• A 1991 album by Mannheim Steamroller: see Fresh Aire 7
• The albums Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2, Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy by Helloween.
• The 1988 album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden, based on the book Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card. Also Iron Maiden's seventh studio album.
• The 2000 album The Seventh Song by Steve Vai, a compilation of the seventh songs of his previous albums.

[edit] Songs

• The song "Seven" by The Long Winters
• The song "Seven Years" by Saosin
• The song "Song of Seven" by Jon Anderson
• The song "Seven" by David Bowie
• The song "Seven" by Sunny Day Real Estate
• The song "Seven" by Gackt
• The song "Seven" by Necrophagist
• The song "7" by Prince
• The song "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes
• The song "Seven Seas of Rhye" by Queen
• The song "Song Seven" by Interpol
• The song "Keeper of the Seven Keys" by Helloween
• The song "Seven Years Down" Rancid
• The song "Seven Years" by Saosin
• The song "Magnificent Seven" by The Clash
• The short instrumental piece "7" by Moby
• The song "seven bridges road" by The Eagles
• "Seven", a song by The Long Winters from the 2006 album Putting the Days to Bed
• The song "Seven Year Ache" by Rosanne Cash
• The song "Seven Seconds" by Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry which topped the charts in 1994.
• The song "Seven" from the Metal band 10 Years
• The song "Seven Deadly Sins" by Flogging Molly
• The song "7th Chamber" by the Wu-tang Clan
• The song "777" by Danzig [ album {Danzig II / Lucifuge} ]
• The song "Seven Whole Days" by Toni Braxton
• The Christian metalcore band underOATH use the suffix 777 at the end of their web address
• The song "Seven Days" by Sting
• The song "Seven is a Number in Magic" by Shocking Blue from the 1970 album "Scorpio's Dance"
• The song "Seven & Seven Is" by Love
• The song "Seven Swans" by Sufjan Stevens
• The song "The Magnificent Seven" by The Clash
• The song "Seven Steps to Satan" by Luna
• The song "Number Seven" by Cypress Hill
• The song "Seventy Times Seven" by Brand New

[edit] In television

• The name of one of the monsters in the cartoon television show Seven Little Monsters.
• Seven, an episodic character from the sitcom Married... with Children.
• In Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine (also called Seven for short) is one of the crewmembers.
• In an episode of Seinfeld entitled "The Seven," the name George Costanza desired to give his first-born (with Susan Ross) is "Seven;" he later falsely claimed that he had promised this to the widow of baseball great Mickey Mantle, whose uniform number was 7.
• The name of a television show 7th Heaven.
• Seven Network, a television network in Australia.
• The number of currently identified biological Cylon models, out of a possible 12, in the television show, Battlestar Galactica.
• Maximum number of VHF broadcast channels available in any TV market in the United States of America; they are channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 in the Greater New York City and Los Angeles-Long Beach SMSAs.
• In Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, most gate addresses use 7 chevrons on the gate.
• Ultra Seven, a television series aired in 1967, and the superhero of the same name.

[edit] In film

• The musical film Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
• The Marilyn Monroe film The Seven Year Itch which is famous for the white dress blowing up.
• The film Se7en, directed in 1995 by David Fincher.
• James Bond's agent secret number is 007.
• In the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
• The film Lucky number s7evin, directed in 2006 by Paul McGuigan.
• The film The Magnificent Seven starring Yul Brynner.
• The Japanese film Seven Samurai directed by Akira Kurosawa.
• The Swedish film The Seventh Seal directed by Ingmar Bergman.
• In 2001: A Space Odyssey (film), Dave Bowman encounters seven octahedra during his journey through the infinite.

[edit] In Video Games

• 7 is a number used many times by Bungie Studios in their Halo and Marathon games. 7 appears in a variety of different contexts, from the stories of the games to the raw game coding. One obvious example is the fact that there are seven Halo rings strewn throughout the galaxy.

• Final Fantasy VII has many instances of seven throughout the game and was even released (in North America) on the seventh day of September in 1997.

[edit] In sports

• In Ultimate Frisbee, the number of players on the field for each team.
• In team handball, the number of players on each team including the goalkeeper.
• In rugby league, the scrum-half/halfback.
• In rugby union, the openside flanker.
• In Cricket, the squad number of England's Ian Bell.
• In scoring baseball, seven represents the left fielder's position.
• In baseball, the 7th Inning stretch attributed to the 27th US President, William Howard Taft.
• In high-school baseball a regulation game lasts seven innings.
• Seven Cycles, a bicycle manufacturer
• Retired baseball jersey number of Mickey Mantle.
• Retired football jersey number of John Elway.
• Retired hockey jersey number of Bill Barber, Phil Esposito, Rod Gilbert and Howie Morenz.
• In the NHL, the maximum number of games played in a playoff series.
• Jersey # of NFL star Michael Vick.
• Uniform number of baseball player, Ken Suarez, catcher for Clevland Indians (1968-71)
• Uniform number of baseball player, John Ellis, catcher and first baseman for Cleveland Indians (1973-75)
• In the Nextel Cup, 07 is Clint Bowyer's number.
• In Football, George Best, Eric Cantona, David Beckham and Christiano Ronaldo all wore the number 7 shirt for Manchester United.
• Players to wear the number 7 shirt for other clubs include Robert Pires, Tomas Rosicky and Andriy Shevchenko.

[edit] In other fields

• The reason for 7 being a lucky number symbolically (such as in the Bible) is because it represents the union of man and woman, since the number for women is 4 and the number for men is 3.
• Seven candles are lit in the kinara during the African-American celebration of Kwanzaa, which is a seven-day holiday.
• It is traditionally thought that there are seven continents on Earth.
• Seven is the smallest positive integer requiring more than one syllable in English.
• There are seven musicians in a septet and seven babies born in a set of septuplets. The most famous set of septuplets are the McCaughey Septuplets, who were born in 1997.
• The British fifty-pence and twenty-pence coins are heptagons, with the sides curved to give them a constant diameter.
• The Kulin people of Australia living near the Dandenong Ranges traditionally have seven seasons. Some of the Native Americans of Montana also have seven seasons: chinook season, muddy spring, green summer, gold summer (or dry summer), 'Indian' Summer, late fall, and cold winter.
• Many cities are claimed to be constructed amidst seven hills; see Seven hills of Rome.
• Serial sevens are used as a diagnostic test in medicine.
• In linguistics, the "7" is sometimes used to represent a glottal stop, as a substitute for ʔ.
• In Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken), the main character, Kenshiro, is also known as "the man with seven wounds" for the seven scars on his body in the shape of the Big Dipper.
• The United States Constitution, as drafted in Philadelphia in 1787, was composed of 7 Articles.

Seven is also:

• The largest number of sticks (or other cylindrical objects) that can be tied into a bundle such that the shape of the bundle remains fixed.
• The number of openings into the human head (mouth, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils).
• The number of spheres in the Ptolemaic system
• The traditional number of Wonders of the Ancient World. There were seven, though only the Great Pyramid of Egypt still stands today.
• Viewed as a lucky number in Japanese Culture as well as many Western cultures.
• The number of days in a week.
• The number of the ages of man into which William Shakespeare divided a lifetime.
• The figurative number of seas.
• The number of colors of the rainbow (the asteroid 7 Iris is named after the rainbow goddess Iris).
• The number of chakras.
• The number of basic principles of the bushido.
• The number of points on a sheriff's star.
• In Galician folklore, a seventh son will be a werewolf. In other folklores, after six daughters, the seventh child is to be a son and a werewolf. In other European folklores, the Seventh son of a seventh son will be a child with special powers of healing and clairvoyant seeing.
• When rolling two standard six-sided dice, seven is the number most likely to occur. It is the sum of any two opposite sides on a standard six-sided die
• The number of dwarfs in the movie Snow White.
• The number of rings given to the Dwarf Lords in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
• The Heptarchy, from the (Greek for seven realm, is the name applied by historians to the period (500-850 CE) in English history after the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England, derived from the seven kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex, which eventually merged to become the Kingdom of England during the early 10th century.
• September was the seventh month in the ancient Roman calendar, as its name indicates. After the reform that led to the current order, the seventh month is July.
• Septidi was the seventh day of the decade in the French Revolutionary Calendar.
• The traditional count of Basque provinces as expressed in the slogan Zazpiak Bat.
• The Seven Sages of Greece: Solon, Chilon, Thales, Bias, Cleobulus, Pittacus, and Periander.
• Cibola was one of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold the Spanish thought existed.
• In casinos, the line 7-7-7 (triple seven, not seven hundred seventy-seven) is a common winning line on slot machines.
• In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, seven is referred to as "the most magical number".
• Bungie Studios' favorite number is "seven." The number is referenced in several of their games, namely the Marathon Series and Halo Series.
• There were seven astronauts in NASA's first manned space program, Project Mercury: Alan Shepard, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Donald "Deke" Slayton, Wallace Schirra, Gordon Cooper.
• In the video game Donkey Kong, the "mudpie" board (showing the flaming oil drum in the middle) is the seventh board that appears in the sequence.

• A lawyer must take seven years of college to qualfy for the bar.
• There are seven books to the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

[edit] Names and titles

Seven or 7 is all or part of a number of names and titles of people, artworks, or organizations, including:

• Sevens, a card game.
• An agency of photojournalists founded by seven photographers.
• Canadian fashion photographer Sev Seven.
• California graffiti artist Seven
• Musician/actor Andre Benjamin's and singer Erykah Badu's son, Seven.
• The stage name of musician Keith Volpone.
• SE7EN (singer), a Korean R&B/hip-hop singer.
• Se7en, a 1995 movie.
• Part of the names of:
  • Aleksis Kivi's "Seven Brothers", the most famous book of Finnish literature.
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a book written by T. E. Lawrence.
  • The Secret Seven, name of achildren's adventure book by Enid Blyton.
  • The book Seven Years in Tibet.
  • Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai, which inspired the 1960 movie with Steve McQueen The Magnificent Seven and its own sequels.
  • Several groupings called the Seven Sisters.
  • The anime Eureka Seven.
  • The character 7 (Nana) and the organisation Septimal Moon in Loveless (manga).
  • The Seven Virgins:
    • The Seven Virgins mountain range in Sri Lanka, which was the scene of an air disaster on December 4, 1974, involving a DC-8 Series 55F passenger jetliner operated by the charter company Martinair, which left 191 dead.
    • the Saptha Kanniyar were seven faithful devotees of Siva, who give birth to seven boys, in Hindu mythology.
    • An anonymous 17th century carol, The Seven Virgins.
  • Seven Sisters, a 1998 song album by pop singer Meja.
  • Seven, gimmick briefly used by professional wrestler, Virgil Runnels III in World Championship Wrestling.
  • Seven of Nine, a crew member in the Star Trek universe.
  • Rugby Sevens, a variant of rugby union and rugby league that contains only seven players per side instead of the standard 15 (union) or 13 (league).
  • The Rugby World Cup Sevens, the World Cup for the union version of Sevens.
  • The IRB Sevens World Series, also in the union version of Sevens.
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a book by Stephen Covey.
  • The metal band Avenged Sevenfold, also known as A7X.
  • Seven Nation Army, a single by the White Stripes.
• 007, codename for James Bond, a fictional secret spy agent.
• In the InuYasha series, the Shichinintai are, as their name says, a band of seven mercenaries.
• There are seven possible games in the World Series, the championship of baseball.
• In the Fushigi Yuugi series, the four beast gods each have seven warriors, the Genbu Seven, the Byakko Seven, the Seiryuu Seven, and the Suzaku Seven.
• Team 7 consists of the main characters in Naruto: Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, and Sakura Haruno.
• In the One Piece series, the Shichibukai (literally, "Seven Military Seas," known in the English versions as the "Seven Warlords of the Sea") are seven powerful pirates who work for the government.
• The number of individual personalities serving Harman Smith as part of the group of assassins called the Killer7, hence the title of the game.
• In the Catalan culture, seven is present in a lot of popular stories like "Les set cabretes i el llop".
• Number 7 is a popular brand of Canadian cigarettes.
• 7up is a popular soft drink.
• 7-Eleven is the trading name of a chain of convenience stores based in the U.S.
• Seven Jeans, also known as Seven '7' for all Mankind, a brand of designer jeans.
• 7 (New York City Subway service), a service of the New York City Subway
• In the Dragon Ball series, there are 7 Dragon Balls that can grant any wish.
• 7-ip is the name of an Australian satellite and wireless technology start up
• The Ultra Series has two heroes with "Seven" in their name: Ultra Seven and Ultra Seven-21.
• Seven is the number of times you can fold a piece of paper

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?' 22 Jesus answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven.'". [1]

Interestingly enough, the value of 490 suggested by Jesus has been the source of much debate among scholars. For example, did he actually mean to impose a limit at 490, or did he only mean that the number of times (one should be forgiven) is to be ongoing? Most conclude the latter.

Alternatively, it may be that the New Testament's mention of seventy "times" seven is a mistranslation of the original Hebrew based on the statement of Lemech (Genesis 4:24) that "If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, then for Lemech it shall be seventy-seven fold."

[edit] See also

• Septenary (numeral system)
• Septenary (Theosophy)
• Seven climes
• Ocorrências do Número Sete, Portuguese / Brasilian Wikipedia

[edit] External link

• Seventy-seven things you need to know about 07