can anyone explain the phrase "sixes and seven"?
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There are two old stories that try to explain this. One tries to find it in the King James Version of the Bible; Job 5:19 has “He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven shall no evil touch thee”, a couplet that makes no sense to us today and which doesn’t seem to link to any known use of the expression. The other story, more common and very widely believed, traces it back to a dispute between two of the ancient livery companies in the City of London.\n\nThese companies, trade guilds, grew up from the latter part of the twelfth century as associations to protect their members’ interests. (They were called livery companies because members had the right to wear a distinctive costume or livery.) There was a lot of squabbling with other guilds about precedence in the early days. One especially troublesome dispute concerned the Merchant Taylors Company, whose members were tailors, and the Skinners Company, whose members controlled the trade in furs. In 1484 the then Lord Mayor, Sir Robert Billesden, settled the dispute in a judgement of Solomon by ruling that the two companies should alternate between the sixth and seventh positions in successive years, a ruling still in force.Therefore the two companies were permanently at sixes and sevens with each other. \n\nHowever Geoffrey Chaucer uses it in a quote “to set the world on six and seven”)in his Troilus and Criseyde, dated about 1375. There are several other examples in the following century, which show that Chaucer was making use of an expression already well known (to the extent that he didn’t feel the need to explain it). The appearance in Chaucer was rather more than a century before the dispute between the guilds was settled, so can’t have been created as a result of it.\n\nWe can’t be absolutely sure of where the phrase comes from, but the most probable explanation is that it arose out of an old game of dice called hazard, in which one’s chances of winning were controlled by a set of rather arbitrary and complicated rules. It is thought that the expression was originally to set on cinque and sice (from the French numerals for five and six). These were apparently the most risky numbers to shoot for (“to set on”) and anyone who tried for them was considered careless or confused. Later, the number words shifted to their modern values as a result of folk etymology among individuals who knew no French and misheard the words. The link with the game (and the original French words) must by then have been severed, or perhaps it was a joke, as seven is an impossible number to throw with one die. The change may also be linked to the sum of the new numbers being thirteen, long considered unlucky.
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You can put it as the last number, right after 2, because that would be the 13th number.\nOr it could be after the number 6. If you add all the numbers and divide by 13, you would get 6.
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one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
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I’ve heard of seven, but who knows...
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Every week contains six days.\n\nSince six is less than seven, any time that something has seven, it has to also contain six.\n\nIf there are seven marbles in a box - you can also reach in and only pull out six.
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I would say the number 6, but the 9 is then backwards.  Works though.
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"get the 4-1-1 (four-one-one; not four eleven)" means get the information (4-1-1 on your telephone is "information" when you need to get a phone number)\n\nWhat up? means What is going on? what's new?\n\n"bling" expensive...gaudy jewelry\n\n"my bad" could mean I'm sorry, or my mistake\n\n"24-7" means all the time; 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week (it used to be 24-7-365;  the 365 being the # of days in a year)\n\n"posin' 'til closin" is hanging out, wasting time as in she'll just be here posin' til closin
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It's so that the person you are talking to knows what you are talking about.\n\nWhat would the alternative be? "Twelve and seven hundred and eighty-nine thousandths?" That's a bit cumbersome.\n\nThe decimal point *creates* a division between the numbers, so we need to replicate that division by saying "point." It just makes sense.
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42.\n\nAnd the Ultimate Question is eventually revealed to be "What do you get when you multiply six times nine?"\n\nMost people are quick to say 'six times nine is fifty-four', but they fail to account for the fact that six times nine DOES equal forty-two if you do the math in base-13.  The end gist of the whole she-bang is that the entire reason that mankind is unable to fathom life is because the universe itself operates in base-13; hence, trying to explain it in base-10 (decimal), base-2 (binary), base-16 (hexidecimal), or any system other than base-13 only leads to further confusion.
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following through with the above. that was the chance of getting a sum of 7.\n\nto not get a sum of 7, you subtract 1/6 from 1.\n\nThis means the chance of not getting 7,  is 5 in 6 \n\n1 - 1/6 = 5/6\n\nthis is an example of complimentary events
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Yes, 7 is an enemy of 9 because 7, eight, 9 LOL!!! 9 musta been tasty though LOL
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0.1(6) ---> point one six - the six repeating\n\n0.(16) ---> point one six - one and six repeating\n\nNotice:\n1) the parenthesys notation is a standard, and it works well even when you don't have special characters, as on Y!Answers...\n2) when things get ambiguous, like in this case, it is a duty to spend a little more words to make things comprehensible; so you could well say "one point six repeating" for the two, as you noticed: it's not wrong for any of the two, but you yourself felt the need to specify better, so you can spend words and specify what you exactly mean. Otherwise, use standard notation
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To scare six?\n\n"Why is six afraid of seven?\nBecause seven eight nine."
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6 because 6*7=42 and 6*9=54
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The "single" part means the revolver has to be cocked before each round can be fired. The "six" part means that the revolver holds six rounds.
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The magic of seven \nSignifies creation, the sum of the spiritual three and the material four \nThe seven ages of man, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins (p 1592), the seven league boot, seventh heaven, the seven wonders of the world, the seven pillars of wisdom, Snow White and the seven dwarves, 7-up.... There are an awful lot of sevens around. Numerologists see seven as the sum of the spiritual three and the material four, signifying creation. The Old Testament tells us that the world was created in seven days. The seventh generation after Adam produced Lamech, who lived for 777 years and was to be avenged 77 fold. Psalm 90 sets the human life span at seven decades. Solomon's temple has seven steps, and Noah's dove returns after seven days. \n\nIn the Hippocratic tradition the number seven governs the ailments of the body. In Germany it was believed that people would not catch swine fever if they spent seven days drinking and bathing in water containing asphodel. A Jewish cure for fever involved taking "seven prickles from seven palmtrees, seven chips from seven beams, seven nails from seven doors," and so on up to "seven hairs from the beard of an old dog."1 And in this issue of the BMJ a long but neglected tradition alleging seven year cycles in human development is vindicated in Jos Verhulst and Patrick Onghena's finding of a circaseptennial (roughly seven year) rhythm in the growth of male human ears (p 1597).2 \n\nIn Iranian folklore the cat has seven, not nine, lives and carries her kittens seven times to seven different places.1 "To do the work of seven mullahs" means to accomplish absolutely nothing. In ancient India the most important numbers were three and seven. The ancient Indian text Rigveda talks of seven stars and seven streams of soma (the drink of the gods).1 Indra, the rain god, is "the seven-slayer," the ocean has seven depths, and there are seven concentric continents. The sacred cow has 21 names--three times seven. \n\nIn ancient Greece, seven was associated with Athena, the virgin goddess, because it is neither producing nor produced--that is, it has no multiple in the first decade (1-10) and also no divisor (other than 1). The first property has little mathematical importance, but the second tells us that seven is a prime number--having no divisors other than itself and one. It is the second Mersenne prime--one less than a power of two.3 \n\nSeven numbers suffice to colour every map on a torus--a surface shaped like a doughnut with a central hole--so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour. The smallest regular polygon that cannot be constructed using ruler and compasses is the heptagon, with seven sides. All sufficiently large whole numbers are the sum of seven perfect cubes. And it you want to get more esoteric, the unit sphere in a multidimensional space has the greatest surface area when the space has dimension seven. \n\nSeven is an astronomical number. The week has seven days because successive phases of the moon occur roughly seven days apart. Other astronomical sevens include the "seven sisters," the stars of the constellation of the Pleiades, and--in ancient times only--the seven planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. In Douglas Adams's The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy the answer to the "Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything," is 42 (six times seven).4 In November 1996 the Independent reported the latest measurements of Hubble's constant--a fundamental physical quantity that determines the rate of growth of our expanding universe.5 "Dr Richard Saunders," the newspaper wrote, "sounded a trifle abashed by the result. 'We have taken two measurements for the constant, and the average of them is, well, it's 42.'"
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will any answerer plz tell me what exactly is the SIX AND OUT rule is??