In Mathematics
233 is an irregular prime, a full reptend prime, a cousin prime, a Chen prime, a Fibonacci prime and a sexy prime. It is the 13th Fibonacci number. It is an Eisenstein prime of the form with no imaginary part. Since 233 × 2 + 1 = 467, another prime, 233 is a Sophie Germain prime. 233 is also a prime triplet (with 227 and 229).
It is the 13th Fibonacci number, being the sum of 89 and 144. Being an odd-indexed Fibonacci number, it is also a Markov number, appearing in solutions to the Markov Diophantine equation: (1, 89, 233), (89, 233, 610), (233, 610, 426389), ... It is also the second (non-trivial) Fibonacci number whose digits and digit sum are also Fibonacci numbers.
In base 10 there is no integer that added up to its own digits yields 233, hence 233 is a self number. In base 3, the sum of 233's digits is composite; no smaller prime has this property.
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