6-7 is the internet meme that everyone (Generation Alpha) is using, but no one knows what it means.  If there is a better example of the inanity of social media, I am yet to find it.

However, I have several suggestions for what is meant by the meme:

1. It is the nineteenth prime number.
2. It is the number of the house in Chancery Lane where Aleister Crowley once lived.
3. It is the height of Peter Crouch in feet and inches.
4. It was the year AD when the Roman general Vespasian invaded Galilee.
5. It is the result of the sum 6×11+1.
6. It is the height in metres of the Victory Column in Berlin.
7. It is the decimal equivalent of the Roman numerals LXVII.
8. It is the age of Leonardo da Vinci when he died.
9. It is the date BC when Julius Caesar married Pompeia.
10. It is the sum of the five consecutive prime numbers 7, 11, 13, 17 and 19.
11. It is the average life expectancy of a man in Russia.
12. It is the height in metres of Salton Sea Beach, California above sea level.

Personally, in the extremely unlikely event that I ever shout out “6-7” when I meet someone, it is probably because I have just been asked what two integers follow 5.

© Simon Turner-Tree

Simon Turner-Tree discovers he has wandered too far outside his own demographic.