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The Number 1777: Properties and Meanings

1777 is a Prime Number.


The Year 1777 AD

In the year 1777 AD Carl Friedrich Gauss ("The Prince of Mathematicians") was born.

In the year 1777 AD the symbol i for imaginary unit was first used by Leonhard Euler, in a memoir.

In the year 1777 AD Johann Lambert, the first to prove that pi was Irrational, died.

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