Year 2026 is coming. Although many exciting events will happen in 2026, very few people noticed the interesting properties of the number 2026. In this article, I will introduce 3 interesting facts about the number 2026.
1. 2026 has only 2 prime factors
2026 is the product of 1013 and 2, which are 2 prime numbers. This means that after 4 years, we finally got another year that only contains 2 prime numbers.
Year 2021: 43×47
Year 2022: 2×3×337
Year 2023: 7×17×17
Year 2024: 2×2×2×11×23
Year 2025: 3×3×3×3×5×5
Year 2026: 2×1013
Not only that, year 2026 is the first year since 2017 that contains a prime factor greater than 1000.
2. An interesting equation about pi
sqrt(202)×sqrt(6)+π ≈ sqrt(20×2)×6
37.9553830246 ≈ 37.947331922