Mathematics
- 66 is a sphenic number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number, and a semi-meandric number. Being a multiple of a perfect number, 66 is itself a semiperfect number.
- Since it is possible to find sequences of 66 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member, 66 is an Erdős–Woods number.
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