cause i don't
2007-02-13 08:25:46 · 23 answers · asked by mrs. smutty aka sodachix 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
everytime i come answers i got see the 23 thing it is killing me
2007-02-13 08:31:56 · update #1
lol. weeeeeeeeeelll:
... 23 was Adolf Hitler's favorite number. He would base many of his decisions involving numbers around 23.
other than that:
23 (twenty-three) is the natural number following 22 and preceding 24. It is the smallest natural number with an eleven letter name in English.
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, 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). 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 - φ(x) for the integers 95, 119, 143, 529.
* The sum of the first 6 (2x3) digits of Pi are 23. 3+1+4+1+5+9 = 23
* 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 and the sixth happy number.
* 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.
In science
* The atomic number of vanadium and the approximate atomic mass (in amu) of sodium.
* The number of chromosomes in a human germline cell
* Human somatic cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
* Avogadro's number used in chemistry is 6.0221367×1023.
Astronomy
* Messier object M23, a magnitude 6.0 open cluster in the constellation Sagittarius
* The New General Catalogue object NGC 23, a magnitude 12.0 barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus
* The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -2145 May 7 and ended on -865 June 15. The duration of Saros series 23 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses.
* The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1843 February 14 and ended on -527 April 14. The duration of Saros series 23 was 1316.2 years, and it contained 74 lunar eclipses.
* The 23rd moon of Jupiter is Carme.
* The earth's axis is tilted at a 23° 31.5' (23.525°) angle.
* A Sidereal day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.091 seconds.
* The planet Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846.
* 23 was Adolf Hitler's favorite number. He would base many of his decisions involving numbers around 23.
In religion
* Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd...") is possibly the most quoted and best known psalm.
* In the religion of Discordianism, 23 is considered a holy number.
* France has twenty-three archbishops; the current Archbishop of Paris is André Vingt-Trois
* December 23 "Satan/Lucifer's Day" in Satanism.
* 2/3=.666 or 666 which is symbolic of the Age of Aquarius, and in prominent translations of the Book of Revelations is the number of the Beast.
In History
* The Federal Republic of Germany was founded on May 23rd
* Jesus Christ according to many biblical scholars was born on July 23rd.
In numerology
Main article: 23 (numerology)
* The sacred number (along with 5) of Eris, goddess of discord, according to the Principia Discordia; it is the number of the Illuminati.
* Like 13, sometimes considered lucky or otherwise significant (as in the occult writings of Aleister Crowley and William S. Burroughs); see the 23 enigma.
o 23 Skidoo is a title of a poem in Aleister Crowley's book "The Book of Lies - Falsely so Called"
* Robert Anton Wilson's book, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati, lists 23 as a cosmic number with strong connections to arcane magic and synchronicity. Numerous people have claimed to see '23's everywhere (the 23 curse) prior to enormous success and fruitfulness.
o In many other of Wilson's works (especially The Illuminatus! Trilogy) 23 is given special importance. Many Discordians use this number for any number of purposes.
* 23rdian is a person who constantly witnesses the number 23 in high concentration.
In other fields
* In The Simpsons, when Homer asks for the bathroom in Burns' house in the episode "Last Exit to Springfield", Burns says it is the 23rd door on the left.
* In William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Caesar was stabbed a total of 23 times (in the Arden Edition it is said that he was stabbed 33 times "Never till Caesar's three and thirty wounds"
* The first song on Side A of The Beatles' first album took 23 takes to record.
Miscellaneous
Jim Carrey, in People Magazine, April 17, 2006, page 142, is quoted as saying: "I've [been fixated on] the number 23 for years. It's everywhere. Each parent passes on 23 chromosomes; Earth's axis is at a 23° angle. Psalm 23 is my mantra..." Possibly uncoincidentally, Carrey stars in the thriller The Number 23, which opens February 23, 2007. 23 is sometimes considered the cosmic number of coincidence.
In Super Bowl XLI the average score is 23.
In "Land of the Dead" Slack has a tattoo that says "23" on the back of her neck.
2007-02-13 08:30:15 · answer #1 · answered by onedrop808 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only time I cared about the number 23 was when my labor pains were 23 minutes apart, lol.
2007-02-13 08:30:07 · answer #2 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
22 and 24 do
2007-02-13 08:29:00 · answer #3 · answered by exterminator6969 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not so much the movie but i like the number
it's the number of my bsketball jersey
my favorite number is 5 2+3=5
2007-02-13 08:30:06 · answer #4 · answered by luckycharmed14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie sucks but #23 is my birthday!!
2007-02-13 08:28:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
23 sucks. 24 is better because I was born on that number...
Oh crap, when did Satan fall from grace XX/24/XX
What is 2+4, 2+4, 2+4, = 666
Oh crap!!!!
2007-02-13 08:31:03 · answer #6 · answered by sleepy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just a number like 666.
2007-02-13 08:28:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was my jersey # back when I played ball back in the day, but I wasn't that good, so I don't know what all the fuss is about.
2007-02-13 08:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't either. That movie is all hype. And Jim Carrey looks terrible, too.
2007-02-13 08:31:57 · answer #9 · answered by Rachel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What on earth are you talking about the movie?
Yeah it looks like it will be interesting.
2007-02-13 08:28:48 · answer #10 · answered by Pisces Princess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋