179

This number is a prime.

'Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules even if you spent all your time thinking about them.' is a 179-letter quote from a book called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. The quote also contains 43 words. All the chapters are numbered using prime numbers. [Homewood]