33 is the 21st composite number, and 8th distinct semiprime (third of the form 3 × q {\displaystyle 3\times q} where q {\displaystyle q} is a higher prime).[1] It is one of two numbers to have an aliquot sum of 15 = 3 × 5 — the other being the square of 4 — and part of the aliquot sequence of 9 = 32 in the aliquot tree (33, 15, 9, 4, 3, 2, 1). It is the largest positive integer that cannot be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers, and it is the largest of twelve integers that are not the sum of five non-zero squares; on the other hand, the 33rd triangular number 561 is the first Carmichael number. 33 is also the first non-trivial dodecagonal number (like 369, and 561) and the first non-unitary centered dodecahedral number.