17

This number is a prime.

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"Seventeen" was the original title of The Beatles' song "I Saw Her Standing There." It was written on a Liverpool Institute exercise book. [McCranie]

There were 17 episodes of the classic BBC TV series The Prisoner. [McCranie]

The first program to run on a stored-program computer consisted of 17 instructions. It was used to find the largest factor of 2³⁰ - 1. [McCranie]

In poker games starting with two hole cards, one out of 17 starting hands is a pair. [McCranie]

"17" is the title of a song by Jethro Tull. [McCranie]

A standard Bb clarinet has 17 keys. [McCranie]

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