17 is the seventh prime number. The next prime is 19, with which it forms a twin prime. It is a cousin prime with 13, and a sexy prime with 11 and 23. It is a permutable prime with 71, and a supersingular prime (as is 71, the largest supersingular prime). 17 can be written in the form ${\displaystyle x^{y}+y^{x}}$  and ${\displaystyle x^{y}-y^{x}}$ , and as such it is a Leyland prime and Leyland prime of the second kind: 17 = 2³ + 3² = 3⁴ - 4³.

Seventeen is the third Fermat prime, as it is of the form 2²ⁿ + 1, specifically with n = 2.^[1] Since 17 is a Fermat prime, regular heptadecagons can be constructed with a compass and unmarked ruler. This was proven by Carl Friedrich Gauss^[2] and ultimately led him to choose mathematics over philology for his studies.^[3]

There are 17 two-dimensional space (plane symmetry) groups. These are sometimes called wallpaper groups, as they represent the seventeen possible symmetry types that can be used for wallpaper.

There are 17 two-dimensional combinations of regular polygons that completely fill a plane vertex.^[4] 11 of these belong to regular and semiregular tilings, while 6 of these (3.7.42,^[5] 3.8.24,^[6] 3.9.18,^[7] 3.10.15,^[8] 4.5.20,^[9] and 5.5.10)^[10] exclusively surround a point in the plane, and fill it only when irregular polygons are included.^[11]

There are 17 four-dimensional parallelotopes that are zonotopes. Another 34, or twice 17, are Minkowski sums of zonotopes with the 24-cell, itself the simplest parallelotope that is not a zonotope.^[12]

Seventeen is the highest dimension for paracompact Vinberg polytopes of rank n+2, with the lowest belonging to the third.^[13]

Like 41, the number 17 is a prime that yields primes in the polynomial n² + n + p, for all positive n < p − 1.

Either 16 or 18 unit squares can be formed into rectangles with perimeter equal to the area; and there are no other natural numbers with this property. The Platonists regarded this as a sign of their peculiar propriety; and Plutarch notes it when writing that the Pythagoreans "utterly abominate" 17, which "bars them off from each other and disjoins them".^[14]

Seventeen is the minimum possible number of givens for a sudoku puzzle with a unique solution. This was long conjectured, and was proved in 2012–14.^[15][16]

There are 17 orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems (to within a conformal symmetry) in which the three-variable Laplace equation can be solved using the separation of variables technique.

Seventeen is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071.

Seventeen is the minimum number of vertices on a graph such that, if the edges are coloured with three different colours, there is bound to be a monochromatic triangle. (See Ramsey's theorem.)

A positive definite quadratic integer matrix represents all primes when it contains at least the set of 17 numbers: {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 67, 73}.^[17] Only four prime numbers up to 73 are not part of the set.

Seventeen is the only prime number which is the sum of four consecutive primes (2,3,5,7). Any other four consecutive primes summed would always produce an even number, thereby divisible by 2 and so not prime.

The sequence of residues (mod n) of a googol and googolplex, for n = 1, 2, 3, ..., agree up until n = 17.

• The atomic number of chlorine.
• The Brodmann area defining the primary visual processing area of mammalian brains.
• Group 17 of the periodic table is called the halogens.
• The number of elementary particles with unique names in the Standard Model of physics.^[18]

GrammarEdit

In Catalan, 17 is the first compound number (disset). The numbers 11 (onze) through 16 (setze) have their own names.

In French, 17 is the first compound number (dix-sept). The numbers 11 (onze) through 16 (seize) have their own names.

In Italian, 17 is also the first compound number (diciassette), whereas sixteen is sedici.

• In most countries across the world, it is the last age at which one is considered a minor under law.
• In the UK, the minimum age for taking driving lessons, and to drive a car or a van
• In the US and Canada, it is the age at which one may purchase, rent, or reserve M-rated video games without parental consent
• In some US states,^[19] and some jurisdictions around the world, 17 is the age of sexual consent^[20]
• In most US states, Canada and in the UK, the age at which one may donate blood (without parental consent)
• In many countries and jurisdictions, the age at which one may obtain a driver's license
• In the US, the age at which one may watch, rent, or purchase R-rated movies without parental consent
• The U.S. TV Parental Guidelines system sets 17 as the minimum age one can watch programs with a TV-MA rating without parental guidance.
• In the US, the age at which one can enlist in the armed forces with parental consent
• In the US, the age at which one can apply for a private pilot licence for powered flight (however, applicants can obtain a student pilot certificate at age 16)
• In Greece and Indonesia, the voting age
• In Chile and Indonesia, the minimum driving age.
• In Tajikistan, North Korea and Timor-Leste, it is Age of majority

MusicEdit

BandsEdit

• 17 Hippies, a German band
• Seventeen (세븐틴), a South Korean boy band
• Heaven 17, an English new wave band
• East 17, an English boy band

AlbumsEdit

• 17 (XXXTentacion album)
• 17 (Motel album)
• 17 (Ricky Martin album)
• Chicago 17, a 1984 album by Chicago
• Seventeen Days, a 2005 album by 3 Doors Down
• Seventeen Seconds, a 1980 album by The Cure
• 17 Carat, a 2015 EP by Seventeen

SongsEdit

• "17 Again", a song by Tide Lines
• "17" (Sky Ferreira song)
• "17" (Yourcodenameis:Milo song)
• "17 Again", a song by Eurythmics
• "17 år", a song by Veronica Maggio
• "17 Crimes", a song by AFI
• "17 Days", a song by Prince
• "17", a song by Dan Bălan
• "17", a song by Jethro Tull
• "17", a song by Kings of Leon
• "17", a song by Milburn
• "17", a song by Rick James from Reflections
• "17", a B-side by Shiina Ringo on the "Tsumi to Batsu" single
• "17", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the album Adore
• "17", a song by Youth Lagoon from the album The Year of Hibernation
• "17 Days", a song by Prince & the Revolution, B side from the 1984 "When Doves Cry" single
• "Seventeen" (Jet song)
• "Seventeen" (Ladytron song)
• "Seventeen" (Winger song)
• "Seventeen", a song by ¡Forward, Russia! from Give Me a Wall
• "Seventeen", a song by Jimmy Eat World from Static Prevails
• "Seventeen", a song by Marina & the Diamonds from the US edition of The Family Jewels
• "Seventeen", a song by Mat Kearney from the iTunes edition of Young Love
• "Seventeen", a song from the Repo! The Genetic Opera soundtrack
• "Seventeen", the original title of the song "I Saw Her Standing There" by The Beatles
• "Seventeen", a song by the Sex Pistols from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
• "Seventeen Forever", a song by Metro Station
• "At Seventeen", a song by Janis Ian
• "Edge of Seventeen", a song by Stevie Nicks
• "Seventeen Ain't So Sweet", a song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus from Don't You Fake It
• "Only 17", a song by Rucka Rucka Ali
• "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)", a song by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
• "(She's) Sexy + 17", a song by Stray Cats from Rant N' Rave with the Stray Cats
• "Hello, Seventeen", a song by 12012
• "Section 17 (Suitcase Calling)", a song by The Polyphonic Spree
• "Day Seventeen: Accident?", a song by Ayreon
• "Seventeen", a song by Alessia Cara
• "Seventeen", a song performed by Marina and the Diamonds
• "Seventeen" and "Seventeen (Reprise)", songs in the musical Heathers
• "Seventeen" and "Seventeen (Reprise)", songs in the musical Tuck Everlasting

OtherEdit

• Seventeen (musical), a 1951 American musical
• The ratio 18:17 was a popular approximation for the equal tempered semitone during the Renaissance

FilmEdit

• Seventeen (1916), an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington
• Number 17 (1928), a British-German film
• Number Seventeen (1932), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Seventeen (1940), a second adaptation of the Tarkington novel
• Number 17 (1949), a Swedish film
• Stalag 17 (1953), directed by Billy Wilder
• Try Seventeen (2002), directed by Jeffrey Porter
• The S1gnificance of Se7enteen directed by Carlos Puga
• 17 Again (2009), directed by Burr Steers

Anime and mangaEdit

• Android 17, a character from the Dragon Ball series
• Detective Konawaka from the Paprika anime has a strong dislike for the number 17

GamesEdit

• The computer game Half-Life 2 takes place in and around City 17
• The visual novel Ever 17: The Out of Infinity strongly revolves around the number 17

PrintEdit

• The title of Seventeen, a magazine
• The title of Just Seventeen, a former magazine
• The number 17 is a recurring theme in the works of novelist Steven Brust. All of his chaptered novels have either 17 chapters or two books of 17 chapters each. Multiples of 17 frequently appear in his novels set in the fantasy world of Dragaera, where the number is considered holy.
• In The Illuminatus! Trilogy, the symbol for Discordianism includes a pyramid with 17 steps because 17 has "virtually no interesting geometric, arithmetic, or mystical qualities". However, for the Illuminati, 17 is tied with the "23/17 phenomenon".
• In the Harry Potter universe
  • 17 is the coming of age for wizards. It is equivalent to the usual coming of age at 18
  • 17 is the number of Sickles in one Galleon in the British wizards' currency

ReligionEdit

• According to Plutarch's Moralia, the Egyptians have a legend that the end of Osiris' life came on the seventeenth of a month, on which day it is quite evident to the eye that the period of the full moon is over. Now, because of this, the Pythagoreans call this day "the Barrier," and utterly abominate this number. For the number seventeen, coming in between the square sixteen and the oblong rectangle eighteen, which, as it happens, are the only plane figures that have their perimeters equal their areas, bars them off from each other and disjoins them, and breaks up the epogdoon by its division into unequal intervals.^[21]
• In the Yasna of Zoroastrianism, seventeen chapters were written by Zoroaster himself. These are the Gathas.
• The number of the raka'ahs that Muslims perform during Salat on a daily basis.
• The number of surat al-Isra in the Qur'an.

• 17 is the number of the longest winning streak in NHL history, which the Pittsburgh Penguins achieved in 1993.
• Larry Ellison's victorious 2013 Americas Cup Oracle racing yacht bears the name "17".
• 17 is the number of the record for most NBA championships in NBA History, which the Boston Celtics (and as of 2020, the Los Angeles Lakers) achieved.
• 17 is the number of individual laws mentioned in the Laws of the Game (association football).
• 17 is the number of games played by each NFL team as of 2021.
• Since the start of the 2014 season, Formula One drivers have been able to choose their own car number, however, following the fatal accident of Jules Bianchi, who drove car #17, the number was retired.

Seventeen is:

• Described at MIT as 'the least random number', according to the Jargon File.^[22] This is supposedly because in a study where respondents were asked to choose a random number from 1 to 20, 17 was the most common choice.
  • This study has been repeated a number of times.^[23]
• The number of guns in a 17-gun salute to U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Generals, and Navy and Coast Guard admirals.
• The number of flames emanating from the grenade cap-badge of the Grenadier Guards.
• During World War II, the four-engined heavy bomber as flown by the USAAF and other Allies and known as "The Flying Fortress", was also known as the B-17
• The maximum number of strokes of a Chinese radical
• The number of syllables in a haiku (5 + 7 + 5)
• In the Nordic countries the seventeenth day of the year is considered the heart and/or the back of winter
• "Highway 17" or "Route 17": See List of highways numbered 17 and List of public transport routes numbered 17
• Seventeen, also known as Lock Seventeen, an unincorporated place in Clay Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
• Seventeen was the former name of a yacht prior to being commissioned in the US Navy as the USS Carnelian (PY-19)

• In Italian culture, the number 17 is considered unlucky. When viewed as the Roman numeral, XVII, it is then changed anagrammatically to VIXI, which in the Latin language translates to "I lived", the perfect implying "My life is over." (c.f. "Vixerunt", Cicero's famous announcement of an execution.) Renault sold its "R17" model in Italy as "R177." See Cesana Pariol in the sport section about the name of curve 17.
• The fear of the number 17 is called 'heptadecaphobia' or 'heptakaidekaphobia'
• Some species of cicadas have a life cycle of 17 years (i.e. they are buried in the ground for 17 years between every mating season)
• The number of special significance to Yellow Pig's Day and Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics
• The number to call police in France
• Force 17, a special operations unit of the Palestinian Fatah movement
• The number of the French department Charente-Maritime
• The declared percentage alcohol content (by volume) of Baileys Irish Cream - an Irish whiskey and cream based liqueur, made by Gilbeys of Ireland
• The flight number of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot down on 17 July 2014 with first test flight of plane is on 17 July 1997 exactly 17 years.
• The record number of concerts performed in a single year at Madison Square Garden by the band Phish in 2017^[24][25]
• The number of deaths and injured people on February 14, 2018, shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

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