23

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. It is, however, a cousin prime with 19, and a sexy prime with 17 and 29; while also being the largest member of the first prime sextuplet (7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23). Twenty-three is also the fifth factorial prime, the second Woodall prime, and a happy number in decimal. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form It is also the fifth Sophie Germain prime and the fourth safe prime, and 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 of 14, 23 is the first Pillai prime. 23 is the smallest odd prime to be a highly cototient number, as the solution to for the integers 95, 119, 143, and 529. The third decimal repunit prime after R2 and R19 is R23, followed by R1031. 23 is the second Smarandache–Wellin prime in base ten, as it is the concatenation of the decimal representations of the first two primes (2 and 3) and is itself also prime. The sum of the first nine primes up to 23 is a square: and the sum of the first 23 primes is 874, which is divisible by 23, a property shared by few other numbers.