There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet
W = 23rd letter of the alphabet
It's symbol is 2 points down, 3 up.
W, the only letter in the English language to be renounced polysyllabically, is 23rd in line. Note also that it is a double(2)-u and that t has three(3) syllables.
WWW = 23+23+23 = 69
69/3 = 23 -> 6+9+3 = 18 = 23-5 (2+3=5)
2 / 3 = .666
23 is the first prime number in which both digits are prime numbers and add up to another prime number.
Two (2), three (3), and five(5) are the first three prime numbers in our counting system. (1 is not prime, it's an identity).
Square root(s) of 2,3, and 5 are used in respect to tetrahedral hyperdimensional physics and perfect form in design. Square root(s)of 2, 3, and 5 supposedly relative to D&M Pyramid on Mars and other similar relationships. Also these square roots were quite common in early architecture and considered the most aesthetically pleasing in design.
23 written in base 3 is 212 (2+1+2=5)
23 written in base 4 is 113 (1+1+3=5)
23 written in base 7 is 32 (3+2=5)
23 Axioms in Euclid's Geometry.
Pentagram: the angle between the rays of a symmetrical-pointed star is 72 degrees. Also, the angle between legs of a pentagon is 108 degrees (the complementary angle of 108 is 72(108+72= 180)).(2^3)*(3^2)=2*3*2*3*2= 72. (Note that5(2^2)*(3^3)=3*2*3*2*3=58. Numbers are 2*3*2*3*5=180 multiplied in each equation.)
Two-thirds of numbers which are divisible by 2 are not multiples of 3.
In the Qabalistic Tree of Life, the 23rd path is associated with the Hanged Man Tarot Card. Aleister Crowley also states that this card represents the concept that the only way OUT is WITHIN!
The human biorhythm cycle is generally 23 days. One measures a circle beginning anywhere.
It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.
An average menstrual cycle is 28 (23+5) days, and of course 2 + 3 =5.
The human body has 46 chromosomes, which are paired, in somatic cells. Generative cells have half this number, 23, which is the number of chromosomes each parents gives to human deoxyribonucleic acid.
The number of joints in the human arm is 23.
63 years, the average lifespan of a human being on the planet Earth, is roughly 23,000 days.
The name of the Uranium isotope used in bombs is U235.
The number of atoms of an element in one mole (cf. Atomic Weight) is 6.21x10²³.
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Year 23 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Twenty-three is the ninth prime number, the smallest odd prime which 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 3n − 1. In base 10, it is the second Smarandache-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.
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.
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).
The "23 Enigma" in Discordianism is the belief that all events are connected to the number 23, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy (there called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (there called "The Law of 23s" and "The 23 Enigma"), Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance, as well as the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23 is considered either lucky, unlucky, sacred to the goddess Eris, sinister, sacred to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos, or strange. Discordians regard this as a corollary of the Law of Fives.

As with most numerological claims, the 23 enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias. In interviews, Wilson has acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the 23 enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind's power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.
William S. Burroughs was cited by Wilson as being the first person to notice the 23 enigma:[2][3] Wilson, in an article in Fortean Times, related the following story:

From Mystical Significance of 23: afgen.com/num23.html
I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.[4]
3/23/94 assassination of Mexican president 5/23/94 burial of Jackie o 7/23/94/

THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE, and we do know that this stone refers to the GREAT PYRAMID'S five sided capstone which is to come down upon mankind to complete the pyramid marking the end of an age and the beginning of The Kingdom of God...The 2+3 or 5 is the universal constant that can be interpreted as a blessing or a judgment. We all can see that mankind has lost his way and he requires proof unconditional. As I gather my file papers together I will give you a few more tidbits...... Oh by the way my strongest numerical pull comes from the arrangement of 1 9 2 3 in any combination....This is the Hebrew year 5756 5+7+5+6=23.

Since the Earth is on a 23 degree angle, the comet activity of Hyakutake will have a profound effect on us here. Did you know that the comet Hale-Bopp was discovered on July 23, 1995, and that it's closest approach to Earth will be on March 23, 1997, 120 million miles away? Did you know that the summer solstice of 2623 coincides with the beginning date of the great pyramids' construction under Pharoah Khufu? Did you know that in 1932 Edgar Cayce writes about the hall of initiates (the pyramid)? Did you know that in 1932 archeologists un-earthed a zodiac temple in Jerusalem?


-K

post script: This number has specific personal significance to me as well, but I'll save all that for another blog.