    23 (twenty-three) is the natural number following 22 and preceding 24. ==in mathematics== twenty-three is the ninth prime number, the smallest odd prime that is not a twin prime. twenty-three is also the fifth factorial prime, the second woodall prime. it is an eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form&nbsp;3n&nbsp;&minus;&nbsp;1. twenty-three is the sum of three other, consecutive, prime numbers; 5, 7 and 11. it is the first prime number showing this characteristic. the fifth sophie germain prime and the fourth safe prime, 23 is the next to last member of the first cunningham chain of the first kind to have five terms (2, 5, 11, 23, 47). since 14! + 1 is a multiple of 23 but 23 is not one more than a multiple 14, 23 is a pillai prime. 23 is the smallest odd prime to be a highly cototient number, as the solution to x&nbsp;&minus;&nbsp;Ï(x) for the integers 95, 119, 143, 529. twenty-three is the aliquot sum of two integers; the discrete semiprimes 57 and 85 and is the base of the 23-aliquot tree. 23 is the first prime p for which unique factorization of cyclotomic integers based on the pth root of unity breaks down. the sum of the first 23 primes is 874, which is divisible by 23, a property shared by few other numbers.puzzle 31.- the average prime number, apn(k)&nbsp;=&nbsp;s(p'k)/k from the prime puzzles & problems connection website in the list of fortunate numbers, 23 occurs twice, since adding 23 to either the fifth or eighth primorial gives a prime number (namely 2333 and 9699713). 23 also has the distinction of being one of two integers that cannot be expressed as the sum of fewer than 9 cubes of integers (the other is 239). see waring's problem. 23 is a wedderburn&ndash;etherington number. the codewords in the perfect (non-extended) binary golay code are of size&nbsp;23. according to the birthday paradox, in a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that some pair of them will have the same birthday. a related coincidence is that 365 times the natural logarithm of 2, approximately 252.999, is very close to the number of pairs of 23 items, 253. in base 10, 23 is the second smarandache&ndash;wellin prime, as it is the concatenation of the base 10 representations of the first two primes (2 and 3) and is itself also prime. it is also a happy number in base 10. 23! is 23 digits lon
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