Just for fun, here's a few things I found about the number 47, being that this election is for the 47th president:
47 is the 15th prime number.
47 is a safe prime, an isolated prime, a highly cototient number, an Eisenstein prime, and a Lucas number.
47 is also a supersingular prime. It is the last consecutive prime number that divides the order of at least one sporadic group.
47 is the atomic number of silver. The atomic mass of titanium is 47.
The 47-year cycle of Mars: after 47 years – 22 synodic periods of 780 days each – Mars returns to the same position among the stars and is in the same relationship to the Earth and Sun. The ancient Mesopotamians discovered this cycle.
[I'm not sure about this since the link-page on the Wiki to the lecture is gone. There was some discussion about this here but doesn't really go anywhere.]
The name of a 47 sided regular polygon is tetracontakaiheptagon.
The name "Sodom" is recorded in 47 verses in the Bible. (
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According to conventional thinking, in 47 A.D. Paul starts his first missionary journey.
On p.291 of FPtM, Laura writes that in 47 A.D., "James and Simon, sons of Judas the Galilean and identified here as James and Simon/Peter of the Jerusalem church, executed by Tiberius Alexander. The apostles/Zealots scatter and go underground?"
47 Tucanae is the second brightest globular cluster in the sky containing millions of stars.
Messier 47 is an open cluster in the constellation Puppis, the stern of the Argo.
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