Is the number 23 important?

Answer 1

not to me.....

wait, is that the number of ingredients in Dr. Pepper?

or the number of flavors of Baskin-Robbin's ice-cream?

23-skidoo?

nope.

nothing important about 23 to me.

Answer 2

It is prime which is good,
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, and the second Smarandache-Wellin prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.

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).

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-Etherington number.

A highly cototient number, 23 is the solution to x - φ(x) for the integers 95, 119, 143, 529.

The codewords in the perfect (non-extended) binary Golay code are of size 23.

In binary, 23 is the smallest prime having a composite sum of digits.

Answer 3

Every number is important. Without 23, you can't get 24. Without 24, you can't get 25. Without 23, there is one prime number less. Without 24, there is one multiple less for 12, and other numbers that are a factor of 24.

Answer 4

That was Michael Jordan's number. Of course it's important!

Answer 5

It is the number of death in bible numerology. Psalms 23...yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...God bless

Answer 6

well, it kinda helps us get from 22 to 24.

But seriously, in numerology it is associated with the Illuminati.

And humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.

Answer 7

i know it is beckham number - 23

Answer 8

It must be to you, you used it twice in your name.

Answer 9

yeah! i was born on the twenty third! plus, its my parents anniversary.

Answer 10

To me, yeah. That's my birthday...which is tomorrow!