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This is the behind the scenes footage of the equipment I used to film my 17 number facts about 2017. https://youtu.be/kzkFUv10Sds

The versions you see are not the only versions I filmed! It took far more to get the timing just right.

From the main video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6jMU-AwX34

Here are some bonus 2017 facts I didn’t use!

Number which is simultaneously of the form x^2+y^2, x^2+2y^2, x^2+3y^2, x^2+7y^2, all with x>0, y>0Last: 1873, Next: 2137http://oeis.org/A216451

Prime congruent to 2 mod 31Last: 1831, Next: 2141http://oeis.org/A142006

Value from a(n) = 2*n^2 - n + 1Last: 1892, Next: 2146http://oeis.org/A130883

Can rhyme with "heaven spleen"Last: 1917, Next: 2117

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Uploaded by Matt Parker on 2017-01-02.

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Rémy GRANDIN

Using the ironing board again? Oh the "irony"... (I'm already sorry for this bad joke...). Happy new year to you too Matt!

Timur Sultanov

Rhyme is arguable... why 2018 doesn't rhyme with spleen?

Timur Sultanov

Also I was actually very excited when I got to know that both your age and my age will be primes this year... So I didn't fit your meter well... Though it will be true only if 31 and 37 will remain prime throughout the year... Which I'm fairly sure will happen, because it is not US elections or Brexit referendum... It is pretty much invariant as times passes...

Timur Sultanov

Though I'm not sure whether I should be excited about those being sexy primes... Though I suppose whenever this happened in the past and will happen in the future for the two of us, it always will be sexy prime, for an obvious reason...

Timur Sultanov

Also you have an error there... 33 years without a prime is not possible... It should be 32 or 34... the only odd difference between consecutive primes is 1 (for 2 and 3)

Timur Sultanov

The actual difference is 34... if you want to stick to the fact that current difference is 10... and that in seventies gap was 22... You lack consistency there...

Doug Jones

Opened up my brand-new Mensa puzzle calendar today (it sits on my desk at work), and what did I see for January 2nd? A maths puzzle involving 2017! In this case, they want you to take the digits 2, 0, 1 and 7 (in that order) and use the four arithmetic symbols to make an expression for each number from 1 to 10. The rules were: 1) In each expression, all four digits 2, 0, 1, and 7 must be used once each and in the order 2, 0, 1, 7 from left to right. 2) Use any of the four arithmetic operations as many times as needed 3) You may use a negative sign in front of any number, even the 2 4) You may use parentheses (brackets?) to group calculations 5) You may use any of the last three digits as exponents. I found it fairly easy, and I'm sure most of the people would find it so on here as well... but it was a neat diversion and I found it very apropos since I've watched this video at least five times so far.

Matt Parker

This is a very good point! I accidentally mixed-up formats between composite years in between and size of gap. The odd and even mismatch should have alerted me. I have already put a correction on the main video.