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Seven Sevens are Seventy Seven

And Eleven Elevens are Eleventy Leven

Robert Gowty
2 min readMay 22, 2022
“Is that the correct notation for eleventy leven?” ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash. Math by the author.

Am I losing faith in my mystical quest to uncover the deeper secrets of the number seven?

How 20th century of me. How Gen X. What am I? An REM fan or something? Possibly.

It’s the 21st century now. No more “Living in the Past”.

Having duly added REM and Jethro Tull to the inner turntable it’s time to unfurl the flag once more with my first anthology of seven stories championing the number seven.

I know some of you are questioning my mathematical aptitude at this point, but as a graduate of the Nigel Tufnel School of Mathematics I’m aware that the solution to most difficult problems is to simply go one louder.

This isn’t a double down. It’s a triple down.

The First Triple Down

What? You don’t like reggae?

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Robert Gowty
Robert Gowty

Written by Robert Gowty

Extemporal Explorer. Music, art, fiction, science fiction, culture and technology. Tasmanian Existentialism. Aficionado of the number seven.

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