Seventeen (17)

The Number 17- is the Least Random Number (According to MIT that is). That name comes from a statistical study in which people were asked to choose a random number from 1 to 20. 17 came up the most. Seven is often seen as a lucky number- one of the digits in seventeen.

The other is the number one, and if you add them up you get to 8, another lucky number for some. Is this all just superstition and mumbo jumbo? Well yes, obviously! Don’t knock it though- I bet you have a lucky number.

The Number Seventeen (17). Is this one of your lucky roulette numbers? It certainly worked for Mike Ashley, the owner of Newcastle United Football Club. He famously won £1.3 million on a single spin with this number in the Fifty St James Club in Mayfair (the casino has closed down now- maybe that was why).

Sean Connery also had some great luck with the number 17 on the roulette table. He bet and won on seventeen 3 times in a row in Italy in the sixties.

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How to make a Bet on Roulette 17.

What’s the best way to cover the number? Well, you can make a straight up roulette bet on the individual number 17. That’s easy enough- number 17 is a black number that lies between the number 25 and 34 when you play European Roulette and between 32 and 5 on an American wheel. On the betting table it is one of the centre numbers along with the number 20.

It lies within the 2nd of the dozens bets (13-24) and makes up part of the middle column bet. You can also cover it playing black, odd and low (1-18) on the even money bets.

Any other ways? Well, Finales en Plein (7) and Finales a Cheval (7) cover it of course. If you want to play one of the French call bets, go for Orphans (Orphelins) which also cover the number 17.

All About the Number 17

17 is a Prime Number (the seventh- also a lucky number- maybe it’s double lucky). It only divides by itself and one if you want a result that is a whole number or integer. And of course it is a natural number, meaning it’s not a fraction.

The number 17 seems to pop up everywhere mathematics, as well as in sciences, law, music, religion, sports, and other areas.

Do you know what the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet is? It’s π (Pi), another magical number if you like circles.

St Patrick’s Day

St Patrick’s Day is an Irish and Irish-American holiday falling on the March 17th. It marks the death of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17, around 492.

Norway 17

In Norway, May 17th is Constitution Day. On this day in 1814 Norway declared independence from Denmark which had ruled them for 400 years. South Korea holds their Constitution Day on July 17th.

Other Weird Stuff about Seventeen

If you add up the first 4 prime numbers, you get to 17 (2+3+5+7).

17 falls between 16 (which can be a represented by a square with sides of 4) and 18 (which can be represented by an oblong rectangle). These are the only shapes that have equal numbers for their perimeters and their areas. This only works for 2 natural numbers, 16 and 18. 17 sits in the middle.

17 is the minimum possible number of givens in sudoku for a puzzle with a unique solution.

17 is the atomic number for chlorine. The halogens are five toxic, non-metallic elements make up Group 17 of the periodic table – fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), and astatine (At). You can also donate blood when you reach 17 and you can join the US army without your parent’s consent (if you are American citizen of course).

There have been quite a few bands named after 17, including Heaven 17 and a South Korean boy band called Seventeen. Ricky Martin once released an album called Seventeen. We prefer the Cure’s Seventeen seconds though. Bands as diverse as Jethro Tull, The Kings of Leon, The Smashing Pumpkins have written songs called 17.

Heaven 17- Temptation

The classic 80s track….big budget videos in those days!

If we are talking movies, there is an Alfred Hitchcock film called the number seventeen, and perhaps more relevant to roulette is the movie “The Significance of Seventeen” starring Cindy Taylor; which is all about the high occurence of the number 17 and its label as ‘the least random number’ by MIT.

17 has long referred to at MIT as ‘the least random number’, the sacred number of Eris, Goddess of Discord (along with 23 and 5). In pops up again in the Hacker’s Jargon File, a famous glossary of programmer slang, where 17 is again referred to as the least random number.

Yellow Pig Day

Yellow Pig Day was launched in the sixties when two maths students from Princeton spent a lot of their time thinking about the number 17. They went a little crazy, and invented a yellow pig with 17 toes, 17 teeth, and so on. To celebrate, there is now a Yellow Pig Day on the 17th July

Seventeen is also a magazine aimed at teenage girls, and it’s when wizards come of age in Harry Potter.

17 in Religion

17 chapters were written by Zoroaster (the Gathas) in the Yasna of Zoroastrianism.
Muslims do 17 raka’ahs daily during Salat (repetitions before praying).

Other Random Stuff about Seventeen.

– 17 is the number of guns in a 17-gun salute to U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Generals.
– B-17 was the name of the Flying Fortress bomber in the Second World War.
– It is also the maximum number of strokes you can have in a Chinese character.
– A shape with seventeen sides is know as a heptadecagon.
– How many species of penguin are there? You guessed it! Seventeen.
– It’s also the number to call the cops in France.
– Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) was born on the 17th January. Michael Jordan was born on the 17th February.
– Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States. He became President after Lincoln was shot.
– A Japanese Haiku poem contains 17 syllables.
– The number 17 corresponds to “Q”, the 17th letter in the alphabet.
– In the UK you can start to learn to drive a car when you reach the age of seventeen..
– The White House is located on the 17th street in Washington.
– If you add 1 and 7, you get the number 8, a very lucky number in China. That also works for a 26 roulette bet or a 35 of course.
– Brazilian hero Pelé was the youngest person to have scored in a World Cup final. He was 17 at the time in 1958. Brazil beat Sweden 5-2. Pele actually scored two goals in this game, he headed the ball in at the end of the match, a dream game for him!

Not So Lucky in Italy

In Italy, the number 17 is unlucky.

It is written as XVII in Roman script, which is an anagram of VIXI, which means “I have lived”, or “My life is over.”

Numerology

If you are a fan of numerology (the belief in divine, mystical relationships between a numbers and life in general), 17 stacks up pretty well.

The number 17 is a highly spiritual number. 17 is known as an extremely lucky number. Add 1 and 7 together and you get 8- again a very lucky number, especially to the Chinese. According to numerology, 17s (people born on the 17th of the month) are strong and likely to take risks. They often dream of having money and power. If they have an A, J or S first initial, they may become very rich.

Tarot

The Star (XVII) is the 17th ranking or Major Arcana card in most tarot decks. In astrology, this card is connected to the planet Uranus and Aquarius zodiac sign.

In the card, a woman kneels by the water with one foot in the water and one foot out. Above her is a large star, and seven smaller stars.

She holds a jug in each hand.

From one she pours water into the pool. From the other she pours water onto the land.

Prince

17 Days was released by Prince as the B-side of the single When Doves Cry, the first song released from the smash hit album Purple Rain. And what a B-side that was!

Summary

There you have it. Seventeen- a really interesting number! A roulette classic, in fact, with plenty of stories on it. One last 17 fact for you. The age of the universe? It’s 4.22 x 10^17 seconds (4.22 time 10 to the power of 17 seconds). Spooky! 😉

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