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
Amharic
Indian ٧
Bengali
Chinese numeral 七,柒
Devanāgarī
Hebrew ז (Zayin)
Khmer
Thai
prefixes hepta-/hept- (from Greek)

septua- (from Latin)

Binary 111
Octal 7
Duodecimal 7
Hexadecimal 7

7 (seven) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number[1] that follows 6 and precedes 8. It is an integer and a cardinal number, that is, a number that is used for counting.[2] In addition, it is classified as a real number,[3] distinguishing it from imaginary numbers.

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 main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs 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.

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Digital77.svg

As was 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 about making their 7 more different. For the Khmer, this often involved adding a horizontal line above the glyph.[4] This is analogous to the horizontal stroke through the middle that is sometimes used in handwriting in the Western world, but it 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.

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Hand written 7.png

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 in some brands of calculators, 7 is written with four line segments. The reason is that in Japan and Korea, 7 is written as ① in the illustration to the right.

While the shape of the 7 character has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, for example, in TextFigs078.svg.

Some people, especially in Europe and Latin America, write 7 with a line in the middle and make the top line crooked. The line through the middle is useful to clearly differentiate the character from the number one, as these can appear similar when written in certain styles of handwriting.

In mathematics

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, and so on) 7

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

In the English language, 7 is the only 2-syllable natural, positive 1-digit number 7 is the 6th number of the alphabet

List of basic calculations

Multiplication
Multiplication 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70
Multiplication 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
77 84 91 98 105 112 119 126 133 140
Multiplication 21 22 23 24 25 50 100 1000
147 154 161 168 175 350 700 7000
Division
Division
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7 3.5 1.75 1.4 1 0.875 0.7
1
Division
11 12 13 14 15
0.5
2
Exponentiation
Exponentiation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7 49 343 2401 16807 117649 823543 5764801 40353607 282475249
1 128 2187 16384 78125 279936 823543 2097152 4782969 10000000
Exponentiation 11 12 13
1977326743 13841287201 96889010407
19487171 35831808 62748517

In science

Physics

3. generation τ- anti-t b-quark anti-b t-quark τ+
2. generation μ- anti-c s-quark anti-s c-quark μ+
1. generation e- anti-u d-quark anti-d u-quark e+
0. generation stem particle
charge -3/3 -2/3 -1/3 0 +1/3 +2/3 +3/3
angular spin -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3

It is obvious that a symmetry exists with no electromagnetic charge. It is assumed here, that the size of charge is linearly dependent on the number of quanta of angular spin generating it. In the state of symmetry no magnetic component is generated because no angular spin exists. A particle in such a supersymmetric state would be dark because it cannot electromagnetically interact. Breaking of supersymmetry of this topologically substructured superstring particle would be a change of its angular spin, generating corresponding particles of physics in dependence of the energy level. This angular spin not only generates charge but highly non-linearly also gravo-magnetic mass in dependence of string tension (energy). There seems to be only one generic unique geometry with a fixed functionality of a weak interacting superstring dark stem particle.(0. generation).

In generations one to three there are two sets of three physical particles with opposite charge according to the direction of angular spin. For all three generations only two geometrically and functionally identical dark stem particles exist. These only differ by their handedness, generating matter and antimatter particles on breaking of 0-spin symmetry.

The occurrence of matter and antimatter particles is asymmetric with respect to this symmetry, -3 -1 +2 for matter and -2 +1 +3 for antimatter. Both sets of three particles are arranged in a complementary way around the symmetry enabled by this global physical realization of the number seven. Thus the number seven only emerges as a complementary superposition of two sets of physical particles that are generated by breaking of a supersymmetric state. Nature only makes use of the symmetry provided by the number seven. It however does not actually realize it. Seven seems to be more 'constructed' by arranging two sets of entities representing the number three around a state of symmetry.

Chemistry

Biology

Astronomy

In technology

7 as a resin identification code, used in recycling to identify "other" plastics such as polycarbonate.
7 represented in a seven-segment display.

In religion

Seven Days of Creation - 1765 book, title page

Judaism

  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 Shmita (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"
  6. There are 7 days of Passover and Sukkot when celebrated in Israel
  7. Shiv`a (another pronunciation of the Hebrew word for 7—(Hebrew: שבעה ; "seven")), is the number of days of mourning. Hence, one sits Shiva. As in Shiva (Judaism).

Christianity

Hinduism

Islam

Bahá'í Faith

Other religions

In the classical world

In classical antiquity:

In mythology

In music

In literature

In sports

Miscellaneous

International maritime signal flag for 7
The sevens of all four suits playing cards

See also

Notes

  1. A natural number is any number that is a positive integer, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Often, the number 0 is also called a natural number.
  2. A cardinal number indicates the quantity of things, but not the order in which they occur. By contrast, ordinal numbers are first, second, third, and so on, indicating their positions in a series.
  3. A real number is a number that can be given by a finite or infinite decimal representation. The term "real number" was coined to distinguish it from an "imaginary number." The set of real numbers includes rational and irrational numbers, which can be positive, negative, or zero.
  4. Georges Ifrah, The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer (Wiley, 2000, ISBN 0471393401).
  5. Saros Series 7 Saros Series Catalog of Solar Eclipses, NASA Eclipse Web Site. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  6. Saros Series 7 Lunar Eclipses of Saros Series 1 to 175, NASA Eclipse Web Site. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  7. Bible Gateway, Matthew 18:21. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  8. Bible.org, Seven Suicides in the Bible. Retrieved October 7, 2022.

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