0_Wizard
I've always found 7, the number between 6 and 8, to be a lucky number for me. 
7 (seven; ) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8.
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Lucky number
In number theory, a lucky number is a natural number in a set which is generated by a certain "sieve". This sieve is similar to the Sieve of Eratosthenes that generates the primes, but it eliminates numbers based on their position in the remaining set, instead of their value (or position in the initial set of natural numbers). One way that the application of the procedure differs from that of the Sieve of Eratosthenes is, for "n" being the number being multiplied on a specific pass, the first number eliminated on the pass is the "n"-th remaining number that has not yet been eliminated, as opposed to the number "2n".
Lucky Number Slevin
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Lene Lovich
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Lucky Number (song)
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13 (number)
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1_Apprentice
i love the number 7 too.
0_Wizard
Sometimes in the western world people draw a horizontal stroke through the middle of the 7, but you never see that on a keyboard.
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.
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Wubi method
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7
7 (seven; ) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase J vertically inverted. 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 lookalike into an uppercase V lookalike. 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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1_Apprentice
thats quite cool.
0_Wizard
I guess it helps to distinguish a 7 from a 1, if you have bad handwriting like I do!  
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 1.
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1_Apprentice
yea i know what you mean.
0_Wizard
Quite a few cultures, including Hindus, have written the 7 in similar ways to how we do it. The Hindus originally wrote it like an inverted J. 
In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase J vertically inverted.
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1_Apprentice
thats a cool way to look at it, strange it was from hindus tho.
0_Wizard
I know, right? And apparently the Arabs' contribution was to make the longer line of the 7 straighter, and to make it more rectilinear, or angular, like we do. 
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.
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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7
7 (seven; ) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. In the beginning, various Hindus wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase J vertically inverted. 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 lookalike into an uppercase V lookalike. 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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1_Apprentice
Thanks for the info on the number 7.