153 (one hundred
ndfifty-three) is the
natural number
In mathematics, the natural numbers are those numbers used for counting (as in "there are ''six'' coins on the table") and ordering (as in "this is the ''third'' largest city in the country").
Numbers used for counting are called ''cardinal ...
following
152
Year 152 (Roman numerals, CLII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Glabrio and Homullus (or, less frequently, year 905 ''Ab ...
and preceding
154.
In mathematics
The number 153 is associated with the geometric shape known as the
Vesica Piscis
The vesica piscis is a type of lens, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each disk lies on the perimeter of the other. In Latin, "vesica piscis" litera ...
or Mandorla.
Archimedes, in his ''
Measurement of a Circle
''Measurement of a Circle'' or ''Dimension of the Circle'' (Greek: , ''Kuklou metrēsis'') is a treatise that consists of three propositions by Archimedes, ca. 250 BCE. The treatise is only a fraction of what was a longer work.
Propositions
Prop ...
'', referred to this ratio (153/265), as constituting the "measure of the fish", this ratio being an imperfect representation of 1/.
As a
triangular number
A triangular number or triangle number counts objects arranged in an equilateral triangle. Triangular numbers are a type of figurate number, other examples being square numbers and cube numbers. The th triangular number is the number of dots i ...
, 153 is the sum of the first
17 integers, and is also the sum of the first five positive
factorials:
.
[Wells, D. '']The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
''The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers'' is a reference book for recreational mathematics and elementary number theory written by David Wells. The first edition was published in paperback by Penguin Books in 1986 in the UK, ...
'' London: Penguin Group. (1987): 140–141.
The number 153 is also a
hexagonal number
A hexagonal number is a figurate number. The ''n''th hexagonal number ''h'n'' is the number of ''distinct'' dots in a pattern of dots consisting of the ''outlines'' of regular hexagons with sides up to n dots, when the hexagons are overlaid so ...
, and a truncated triangle number, meaning that 1, 15, and 153 are all triangle numbers.
The distinct prime factors of 153 add up to 20, and so do the ones of 154, hence the two form a
Ruth-Aaron pair.
Since
, it is a 3-
narcissistic number
In number theory, a narcissistic number 1 F_ : \mathbb \rightarrow \mathbb to be the following:
: F_(n) = \sum_^ d_i^k.
where k = \lfloor \log_ \rfloor + 1 is the number of digits in the number in base b, and
: d_i = \frac
is the value of each d ...
, and it is also the smallest three-digit number which can be expressed as the sum of cubes of its digits. Only five other numbers can be expressed as the sum of the cubes of their digits:
0,
1, 370, 371 and 407. It is also a
Friedman number A Friedman number is an integer, which represented in a given numeral system, is the result of a non-trivial expression using all its own digits in combination with any of the four basic arithmetic operators (+, −, ×, ÷), additive inverses, pa ...
, since 153 = 3 × 51.
The
Biggs–Smith graph is a
symmetric graph
In the mathematical field of graph theory, a graph is symmetric (or arc-transitive) if, given any two pairs of adjacent vertices and of , there is an automorphism
:f : V(G) \rightarrow V(G)
such that
:f(u_1) = u_2 and f(v_1) = v_2.
In oth ...
with 153 edges, all equivalent.
Another feature of the number 153 is that it is the limit of the following algorithm:
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# Take a random positive
integer
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, divisible by
three
3 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
3, three, or III may also refer to:
* AD 3, the third year of the AD era
* 3 BC, the third year before the AD era
* March, the third month
Books
* '' Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 ...
# Split that number into its base 10 digits
# Take the sum of their cubes
# Go back to the second step
An example, starting with the number
84:
In the Bible
The
Gospel of John
The Gospel of John ( grc, Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, translit=Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "sig ...
(
chapter 21:1–14) includes the narrative of the
miraculous catch of 153 fish as the third appearance of Jesus after his
resurrection
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, whic ...
.
The precision of the number of fish in this narrative has long been considered peculiar, and many scholars have argued that 153 has some deeper significance.
Jerome
Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is co ...
, for example, wrote that
Oppian's ''Halieutica'' listed 153 species of fish, although this could not have been the intended meaning of the Gospel writer because Oppian composed ''Halieutica'' after the Gospel text was written, and at any rate never gave a list of fish species that clearly adds up to 153.
The number is clearly an intentional detail, given the lack of precision and detail elsewhere in the story; and theologians have lent much credence to Augustine's numerology simply because it comes from historic rather than contemporary theology.
Jerome
Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is co ...
reached much the same conclusion as Augustine that the figure is an allegorical representation of totality, but through more straightforward means rather than through numerology.
In his ''Commentary on Ezekiel'' he propounded the hypothesis that 153 was meant to represent the whole universe of fish, citing as proof that contemporary poets, giving
Oppian as an example, believed that there were 153 species of fish in the world.
However,
Robert M. Grant disproved Jerome's hypothesis by noting that Oppian actually enumerated only 149 (as catalogued by
Alexander William Mair
Alexander William Mair (9 June 1875–13 November 1928) was a 20th century Scottish scholar who was Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh. He was an authority on the works of the Greek poet Hesiod.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh o ...
) fish species in his ''Halieutica'' (or only 152 "by adding 3 worms", in Grant's words).
What Oppian actually said, moreover, was that only the gods knew the number; and other ancient authors gave different numbers that still were not 153, such as
Pliny The Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ' ...
in ''Naturalis Historia'' (9.43) recording only 74, 104, or 144 (depending from how one counts, and whether one includes hard shelled animals) species of fish, and
Quintus Ennius as reported by
Apuleius
Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern- ...
enumerating "countless kinds of fish".
"Every ancient
ichthyologian counted the number of species differently." stated Grant.
David Strauss
David Friedrich Strauss (german: link=no, Strauß ; 27 January 1808 – 8 February 1874) was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he ...
had in fact pointed out the same thing about Oppian in his ''Leben Jesu'' the century before Grant.
From a strictly biological point of view, moreover, only 24 species of fish had been recorded in the Sea of Galilee by the turn of the 20th century.
Theologians have continued to support Jerome's hypothesis despite Grant and Strauss, arguing variously that Jerome may have had access to other works of Oppian that are now lost, that Oppian was writing a century after the Gospel of John and at least came close, and that perhaps (despite his having mentioned Oppian by name) Jerome's reference to multiple writers actually meant other writers entirely.
Grant himself opined that "there is every reason to suppose" that in fact Jerome had not actually checked Oppian's writing directly for this information, but was rather recounting secondhand some earlier Christian commentary on the Gospel of John.
Many other numerological interpretations have been propounded, from adding numerological representations of
Simon
Simon may refer to:
People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
's name to the Greek word for fish through the additions (100+50+7) of
Cyril of Alexandria to the multiplications (17×3×3) of
Gregory the Great
Pope Gregory I ( la, Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregoria ...
.
Frédéric Louis Godet characterized them as "strange".
There were at least 18 distinct numerological explanations when
John Emerton
John Adney Emerton, (5 June 1928 – 12 September 2015) was a British Anglican priest, theologian, and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1995.
Early life and education
Emerton was born on 5 ...
performed "a quick survey" in 1958.
Emerton proceeded to then add a
gematria
Gematria (; he, גמטריא or gimatria , plural or , ''gimatriot'') is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase according to an alphanumerical cipher. A single word can yield several values depending on the cipher ...
l explanation, to which 8 others have been added since.
Professor of the New Testament, Craig S. Keener observed in 2010 the several gematrial explanations, critiquing ideas such as reversing the order of the Greek alphabet as being "forced", noting that a "children of God" reading of the number "import
a ministry image from Mark 1:17 that John never mentions", and commenting on allegorical suggestions linking to
Moses that "one wonders whether John could have expected any members of his original audience to catch"; summarizing that gematrial explanations that may scholars have put forward are too complex to be discovered without starting from the answer desired and working backwards from there, and that the plethora of such explanations all distinct from one another itself indicates their weakness.
However, there have been more prosaic and literal explanations, including the simple straightforward one that the detail is simply correct, and 153 is the number of fish caught.
John Bernard argued by quoting
Edwin Hatch that "The idea that ancient literature consists of riddles which it is the business of modern literature to solve has passed for ever away.", pointing out the irony of a Gnostic-like search for meaning in the tale when John himself was simply being quite literal. Godet, likewise, asserted that it was just "a simple fact recalled to mind".
R. Alan Culpepper (who was dean of the McAfee School of Theology at
Mercer University
Mercer University is a private research university with its main campus in Macon, Georgia. Founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute and gaining university status in 1837, it is the oldest private university in the state and enrolls more than 9,000 s ...
) observed, in his 2021 overview of seven distinct ''classes'' of argument about the number, that whilst there are arguments in favour of symbolic interpretations "Nevertheless, the text gives no basis for interpreting the number." Professor of New Testament Studies Timothy James Wiarda stated that "It is sufficient to note that the text offers the reader no hint concerning any symbolism in the miraculous catch of fish.". Keener, having discounted gematria, Jerome (per Grant and Strauss), and Augustine (with a simple analysis of how probable it is to pick numbers that have at least ''some'' special property, be that they are
triangular
A triangle is a polygon with three edges and three vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC.
In Euclidean geometry, any three points, when non- collinea ...
,
square
In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90- degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length a ...
,
prime
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways ...
, or otherwise), concludes that the straightforward explanation is the more likely one and that "the number could simply stem from an accurate memory of a careful count on the occasion", quoting Archibald Macbride Hunter in hise 1965 ''Cambridge Bible Commentaries'' that it is "no more symbolical than the hundred yards that Peter swam. It is the remembered number of a 'bumper' catch."
Culpepper's three other classes (aside from Jerome, literalism, gematria, and Augustine) are algebraic interpretations based on 153 itself, algebraic interpretations based on the number 17, and the hypothesis that the symbolic meaning of the number exists but is no longer discoverable.
Cornelius à Lapide writes that the "multitude of fishes mystically represents the multitude of the faithful which Peter and the Apostles afterwards caught by the net of evangelical preaching, and converted to Christ".
Augustine of Hippo argued that the significance lay in the fact that 153 is the sum of the first 17
integer
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s (i.e. 153 is the 17th
triangular number
A triangular number or triangle number counts objects arranged in an equilateral triangle. Triangular numbers are a type of figurate number, other examples being square numbers and cube numbers. The th triangular number is the number of dots i ...
), with 17 representing the combination of
divine grace (the
seven gifts of the Holy Spirit
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are an enumeration of seven spiritual gifts first found in the book of Isaiah, and much commented upon by patristic authors.
They are: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of ...
) and law (the
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, ''aséret ha-dvarím'', lit. The Decalogue, The Ten Words, cf. Mishnaic Hebrew עשרת הדיברות \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְ ...
). Theologian
D. A. Carson discusses this and other interpretations and concludes that "if the Evangelist has some symbolism in mind connected with the number 153, he has hidden it well", while other scholars note that "no symbolic significance for the number of 153 fish in John 21:11 has received widespread support."
Writers claiming a major role for
Mary Magdalene have noted that in Greek
isopsephy Isopsephy (; ''isos'' meaning "equal" and ''psephos'' meaning "pebble") or isopsephism is the practice of adding up the number values of the letters in a word to form a single number. The total number is then used as a metaphorical bridge to othe ...
her epithet "η Μαγδαληνή" bears the number 8 + 40 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 30 + 8 + 50 + 8 = 153, thus, it is suggested, revealing her importance.
[Margaret Starbird, ''Magdalene's Lost Legacy: Symbolic Numbers and the Sacred Union in Christianity'', Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, 2003, pages 49 and 139, .] Similarly, the phrase "τὸ δίκτυον" (the net) used in the passage bears the number 1224 = 8 × 153,
as do some other phrases. The significance of this is unclear, given that
Koine Greek
Koine Greek (; Koine el, ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinè diálektos, the common dialect; ), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-reg ...
provides a choice of several noun endings with different isopsephy values. The number 153 has also been related to the
vesica piscis
The vesica piscis is a type of lens, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that the center of each disk lies on the perimeter of the other. In Latin, "vesica piscis" litera ...
, with the claim that
Archimedes used 153 as a "shorthand or abbreviation"
for the
square root of 3
The square root of 3 is the positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number 3. It is denoted mathematically as \sqrt or 3^. It is more precisely called the principal square root of 3 to distinguish it from the negative nu ...
in his ''
On the Measurement of the Circle''. However, examination of that work shows this to be only partly correct.
Evagrius Ponticus
Evagrius Ponticus ( grc-gre, Εὐάγριος ὁ Ποντικός, Georgian: ევაგრე ქართველი), also called Evagrius the Solitary (345–399 AD), was a Christian monk and ascetic from Heraclea, a city on the coast ...
referred to the catch of 153 fish, as well as to the mathematical properties of the number (153 =
100
100 or one hundred ( Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
+
28 +
25, with 100 a
square number
In mathematics, a square number or perfect square is an integer that is the square of an integer; in other words, it is the product of some integer with itself. For example, 9 is a square number, since it equals and can be written as .
The usu ...
, 28 a
triangular number
A triangular number or triangle number counts objects arranged in an equilateral triangle. Triangular numbers are a type of figurate number, other examples being square numbers and cube numbers. The th triangular number is the number of dots i ...
and 25 a
circular number) when describing his 153-chapter work on prayer.
Louis de Montfort
Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (31 January 1673 – 28 April 1716) was a French Roman Catholic priest and confessor. He was known in his time as a preacher and was made a missionary apostolic by Pope Clement XI.
As well as preaching, Montfort ...
, in his fifth method of saying the
Rosary, connects the catch of 153 fish with the number of
Hail Mary
The Hail Mary ( la, Ave Maria) is a traditional Christian prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke: the Angel Gabriel's visit to Mary (the Annunciation) and Mary's ...
s said (3 plus 15 sets of 10), while
St Paul's School in
London
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was founded in 1512 by
John Colet
John Colet (January 1467 – 16 September 1519) was an English Catholic priest and educational pioneer.
John Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, and Dean of St Paul's C ...
to teach 153 poor men's children, also in reference to the catch.
In the military
* is an of the
Royal Australian Navy
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* was a of the Royal Australian Navy during
World War II
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* JDS ''Yūgiri'' (DD-153) is an of the
Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
, abbreviated , also simply known as the Japanese Navy, is the maritime warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. The JMSDF was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) ...
* was a
United States Navy
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auxiliary ship during the
Vietnam War
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* was a United States Navy ''Trefoil''-class concrete barge during World War II
* was a United States Navy during World War II
* was a United States Navy during World War II
* was a United States Navy naval fighting ship during World War II
* was a United States Navy ship during World War II
* was a United States Navy during World War II
* was a United States Navy during World War II
* was a United States Navy during World War II
* The
153d Airlift Wing
The 153d Airlift Wing (153d AW) is a unit of the Wyoming Air National Guard, stationed at Cheyenne Air National Guard Base, Wyoming. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command.
Ove ...
is a unit of the
United States Air Force
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, located at
Cheyenne Regional Airport,
Cheyenne, Wyoming
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.
* The
153d Air Refueling Squadron
The 153d Air Refueling Squadron is a unit of the Mississippi Air National Guard 186th Air Refueling Wing located at Key Field Air National Guard Base, Mississippi. The 153d is equipped with the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft.
The squadron is a d ...
is a unit of the
Mississippi Air National Guard, flying the
KC-135 Stratotanker
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* The
153rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an
infantry
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regiment
A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, service and/or a specialisation.
In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscript ...
that served in the
Union Army
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during the
American Civil War
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* The Russian Soviet
Polikarpov I-153
The Polikarpov I-153 ''Chaika'' (Russian ''Чайка'', "Seagull") was a late 1930s Soviet biplane fighter. Developed as an advanced version of the I-15 with a retractable undercarriage, the I-153 fought in the Soviet-Japanese combats in Mon ...
''Chaika'' ("Seagull") was a late 1930s biplane fighter which saw combat during World War II
In transportation
*
British Rail Class 153 is a single-car
diesel multiple unit train
*
Caledonian Airways Flight 153
Caledonian Airways Flight 153 was a multi-leg nonscheduled passenger service from Luxembourg via Khartoum, Lorenzo Marques (nowadays Maputo), Douala and Lisbon, before heading back to Luxembourg.
On 4 March 1962 a Douglas DC-7C flying the r ...
from
Douala International Airport
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,
Douala
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,
Cameroon
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crashed on March 4, 1962
* The
Peugeot Type 153 car, produced between 1913 and 1925
*
153rd Street station on
Metra
Metra is the commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 242 stations on 11 rail lines. ...
's
SouthWest Service
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in
Orland Park, Illinois
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Located 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Ch ...
In sports
*
Australian rules footballer
Scott Hodges had a
SANFL
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Originally formed as the ...
season goal kicking record of 153 in 1990
In radio and TV
* The frequency of the
longwave
In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band. The term is historic, dating from the e ...
transmitters
Donebach
Donebach is a neighborhood of the village of Mudau, Odenwald, Germany and has 369 inhabitants. At Donebach, there is the longwave transmitter of Deutschlandfunk for broadcasting on 153 kHz, whose antenna masts are with a height of 363 metres ...
,
Ingøy
Ingøy or Inga is a small fishing village on the island of Ingøya in Måsøy Municipality, Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies on the northern coast of the island of Ingøya, facing the open Arctic Ocean. The village of Ingøy l ...
,
Braşov, and
Kenadsa is 153 kHz
In other fields
153 is also:
* The year
AD 153 or 153 BC
* The year 153 AH in the
Islamic calendar
The Hijri calendar ( ar, ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, translit=al-taqwīm al-hijrī), also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 ...
that corresponds to 769 – 770
CE
* The code for
malignant neoplasm of the colon in the
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
* The code for "mental processes &
intelligence
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" in the
Dewey Decimal Classification
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Section 4.1 ...
* A reference to a comet (
153P/Ikeya-Zhang) discovered in 2002
* A reference to a large
asteroid with a dark surface (
153 Hilda) in the outer
Main belt
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* The ordinal number of the
coat of arms of Komi Republic in the
State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation
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* The number of combined Arabic and Persian
Hidden Words in the
Baháʼí Faith
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.
* The
atomic number
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of an element temporarily called Unpenttrium
* A
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
* The U.S.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), part of the United States Department of Transportation, is a government office that compiles, analyzes, and publishes information on the nation's transportation systems across various modes; and str ...
' world area code for
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
* Number of possible type combinations in the
Pokémon series.
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aphorism
An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: ''aphorismos'', denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. Aphorisms are often handed down by ...
s outlined by Chr. Pack in ''153 Chymical Aphorisms''
153 Chymical Aphorisms
See also
* Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia
* Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976)
* List of highways numbered 153
* United Nations Security Council Resolution 153
United Nations Security Council Resolution 153, adopted unanimously on August 23, 1960, after examining the application of the Gabon Republic for membership in the United Nations the Council recommended to the General Assembly that the Gabon Re ...
* United States Supreme Court cases, Volume 153
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The Number 153 at The Database of Number Correlations
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