To me, graveyards are beautiful places where the dearly departed are laid to rest. Find A Grave and Billiongraves are two genealogical sources that assist individuals in finding gravesites. When my son and I visited graveyards in Hungary and Slovakia a few years ago, we saw many wood and stone grave markers that had been eroded by weather. Some were almost impossible to read. We also suspect some people were too poor when they died to get a headstone of any type. We were very excited when we saw any readable grave markers with our family surnames.
Recently on twitter, I saw these paintings of gothic graveyards by M J Forster. I knew immediately I wanted to include them in this post. The paintings are quite stunning.
New paintings my #gothic #graveyard series. Follow this link for the smaller 6. https://t.co/5tK0er3bSQ All original #watercolour #painting pic.twitter.com/q8c7xraTVy
— M J Forster (@Matt_Forster) October 21, 2017
Finding departed ancestors can sometimes be difficult, but very rewarding. Finding the factors in today’s puzzle will be very easy:
Print the puzzles or type the solution on this excel file: 12 factors 923-931
Here’s a fun fact about the number 923:
OEIS.org informs us that 923(923 + 1) = 852,852. Below are two of the MANY possible factor trees for 852,852. The first one includes factor trees for 923 and 924, the second one shows why their product uses digits that repeat itself in order.
- 923 is a composite number.
- Prime factorization: 923 = 13 × 71
- The exponents in the prime factorization are 1 and 1. Adding one to each and multiplying we get (1 + 1)(1 + 1) = 2 × 2 = 4. Therefore 923 has exactly 4 factors.
- Factors of 923: 1, 13, 71, 923
- Factor pairs: 923 = 1 × 923 or 13 × 71
- 923 has no square factors that allow its square root to be simplified. √923 ≈ 30.380915
