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 third Woodall prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 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.
Exciting stuff, right? There's a lot more info on 23 on Wikipedia.
What's not so exciting? The lack of joy in Mudville right now. Two national TV sports losses yesterday. Cardinals and Rams. Bummer.
So what's funny? Here's something. A girl wins money at a BlackJack tournament. They make one of those big checks for her. Someone abbreviates a word that clouds what kind of tournament she won.
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$1950 will buy a lot of ... uh ... never mind.
And I thought 23 was just an ordinary number.....
B.J. should NEVER be abbreviated. Except when referring to the sexual one.
She will be explaining that check for a long time in the future!
Wonder what she did wrong that she didn't get the full price of $2000?
How do you get to be a judge for that contest?
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