New Year has some math properties for Number lovers

Bengaluru-based mathematician and author of math textbooks KV Narayana has listed out a few mathematical properties of the year 2022 as we ring in the New Year.

The 69-year old retired teacher holds a PhD in Number Theory & is engaged in post-doctoral research in the subject.

The sum of digits in the year six (2+0+2+2=6) is a perfect number. A perfect number is the one which is equal to the sum of its divisors (1+2+3). (Other examples of a perfect number are: 28, 496, and 8128 etc.)

According to philosophy, God created the world in six days and God created humans on the sixth day.

Each digit in 2022 is an even number, both zero and two are even numbers. The same pattern will occur after a thousand years: 3033.

The New Year can be expressed as a sum of four squares. 2022= 12+22+92+442.

The year can also be expressed as: 22+62+222+2622=2x6x22x262=69,168. That is, the sum of squares of the number is equal to the product of the same numbers.

The number 2022 can also be expressed as a sum of powers of 2 as follows: 2022=21+22+25+26+27+28+29+210

The calendar of the year 2022 is exactly the same as the year 2011 and the year 2033. It is a non-leap year beginning and ending on a Saturday.

The New Year can be expressed as a sum of two millennia, two decades and two years. 2022=1000+1000+2.