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| Cardinal | seventeen | |||
| Ordinal | 17th (seventeenth) | |||
| Numeral system | septendecimal | |||
| Factorization | prime | |||
| Prime | 7th | |||
| Divisors | 1, 17 | |||
| Greek numeral | ΙΖ´ | |||
| Roman numeral | XVII | |||
| Binary | 100012 | |||
| Ternary | 1223 | |||
| Senary | 256 | |||
| Octal | 218 | |||
| Duodecimal | 1512 | |||
| Hexadecimal | 1116 | |||
| Hebrew numeral | י"ז | |||
| Babylonian numeral | 𒌋𒐛 | |||
17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number.
17 was described at MIT as "the least random number", according to the Jargon File.[1] 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.[2]