Can Six Sixes Equal 67 in This Brain Teaser?

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Here is a Brain Teaser sopsed to me by a friend... How can you make six sixes (666666) equal 67?
 
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66 + (66/66)

Maby. Does this follow the rules?
 
binzing said:
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flatmaster said:
66 + (66/66)

Maby. Does this follow the rules?
That's probably the answer. Except I'll leave it as [tex]66\frac{6}{6}[/tex] without the + sign. I came across many variants of the same problem. And this clearly isn't a brain teaser, not because it's easy but because it doesn't involve thinking logically at all.