77 (seventy-seven) is thenatural number following76 and preceding78. Seventy-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring five syllables inEnglish.
the 22nd discretesemiprime[1] and the first of the (7.q) family, where q is a higher prime.
with a primealiquot sum of19 within analiquot sequence (77,19,1, 0) to the Prime in the19-aliquot tree. 77 is the second composite member of the19-aliquot tree with65
In theIslamic tradition, "77" figures prominently.Muhammad is reported to have explained, "Faith has sixty-odd, or seventy-odd branches, the highest and best of which is to declare and believe that there is no god but Allah without any equals or highers and anyone worthy of worship, and the lowest of which is to remove something harmful from a road. Shyness, too, is a branch of faith." While some scholars refrain from clarifying "sixty-odd or seventy-odd", various numbers have been suggested, 77 being the most common.[8] Some have gone so far as to delineate these branches.[9]
In certain numerological systems based on the English alphabet, the number 77 is associated withJesus Christ. CHRIST is C = 3, H = 8, R = 18, I = 9, S = 19, T = 20, which added together equal 77.[citation needed]
