17

This number is a prime.

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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]

Submitted: 2005-06-05 04:14:51; Last Modified: 2008-07-31 03:09:15.