Seventeen

Jeff Wilson · 28 Mar 2002, 05:44 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Seventeen
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:44:51 -0600
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> From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>

> > See http://pages.globetrotter.net/sdesr/nu17.htm for a multitude of
> > significances (biblical and otherwise) of the number seventeen.
>=20
>         Correction to the above: The 17 nations are in Acts 2, not
> Romans 2.
>         Otherwise, there are a number of occurances of 17 in the
> Bible, particularly in the Psalter. Books 3 and 4 of the Psalter each
> have 17 ps        The number adds 7 and 10, both of which are numbers
> of completeness or totality in the bible. Added together, they form a
> symbol of compl        Who knows where Wolfe "got" it? He might have
> been thinking of 17 as 7 + 10, as above; or something else entirely.
> Unless he's Patera Nutria

	There is a touch of 17 in the MIT-centric engineering culture:

< http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/random-numbers.html >

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