Today’s Puzzle:
Solve these two multiplication problems and see how mirror-like they are!
Only 50 numbers less than 10000 can make a similar claim to fame:
Countdown to 2022:
Early in 2021, I found a countdown equation for 2022 that also involves its factors. A couple of weeks ago, I found another one. I can’t decide which one I like the best. Even though you can only focus on one equation at a time, the countdown will show both of them concurrently:
Factors of 2022:
It’s an even number, so it’s divisible by 2.
It’s also easy to remember that it is divisible by 3 because 2 + 2 + 2 = 6, a multiple of 3.
This graphic may help you remember that it is divisible by 337:
- 2022 is a composite number.
- Prime factorization: 2022 = 2 × 3 × 337.
- 2022 has no exponents greater than 1 in its prime factorization, so √2022 cannot be simplified.
- The exponents in the prime factorization are 1, 1, and 1. Adding one to each exponent and multiplying we get (1 + 1)(1 + 1)(1 + 1) = 2 × 2 × 2 = 8. Therefore 2022 has exactly 8 factors.
- The factors of 2022 are outlined with their factor pair partners in the graphic below.
More About the Number 2022:
2022 is in the hypotenuse of a Pythagorean triple:
1050-1728-2022, which is 6 times (175-288-337).
It is also the short leg in three other Pythagorean triples:
2022-2696-3370, which is (3-4-5) times 674,
2022-340704-340710, which is 6 times (337-56784-56785), and
2022-1022120-1022122, which is 2 times (1011-511060-511061)
2022 uses only 2’s and 0’s in base 10 and in base 3:
2022₁₀ = 2202220₃.
2022 is the sum of positive consecutive numbers in three different ways:
2022 Magic Squares:
All of the above are the facts that I came up with. Lots of people on Twitter have found other facts about 2022. Be sure to check them out!
Tweets Celebrating 2022’s Mathematical Properties:
Here are some tweets about 2022 that I’ve seen on Twitter. I’ll add more as I see them. They are not listed in order of difficulty, but more or less, in the order that I saw them.
Since #NewYear2022 is coming up, here’s a #Mathematics countdown you can use to spruce up your celebration!
Enjoy! Feel free to verify that it really does give 2022 on your own! 🥳🎉🎆 pic.twitter.com/nOPZBMm0KH— Math Nerd 1729 (@1729Nerd) December 26, 2021
Here’s number four in my countdown of reasons why 2022 promises to be a belter of a year, Mathematically (expect one of these each day as we approach the new year!): #HNY2022 pic.twitter.com/WJ9lFOKVe4
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) December 28, 2021
Here’s number three in my countdown of reasons why 2022 is shaping to be a smasher, Mathswise…(admittedly the appeal of this one’s a wee bit biased, Mr Smith) #HNY2022 pic.twitter.com/jfZllOW2t1
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) December 29, 2021
It’s time for number two in my countdown of reasons why 2022 is numerically worth celebrating (this time it’s a nifty double act connecting 2022 and 2021 with a weird sǫᴜᴀʀᴇ-ʀᴇᴠᴇʀsᴇ-sǫᴜᴀʀᴇ ʀᴏᴏᴛ-ʀᴇᴠᴇʀsᴇ algorithm):#HNY2022 pic.twitter.com/jxdPNrUvrt
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) December 30, 2021
For those who understand some A level math, Happy new year 2022 pic.twitter.com/FEChXkAsvK
— Omugaga Ham (@OmugagaH) December 27, 2021
Math up your countdown to 2022: the midpoint of 2 successive primes (2017 and 2027) that is also the sum of 2 successive primes (1009+1013), the product of 3 distinct primes (2×3×337), and results in a prime when divided by the sum of its digits (2022÷(2+0+2+2)=337) #HappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/Nserh6NpEf
— Maths Ed (@MathsEdIdeas) December 28, 2021
Y’all need to realise that 2020 is gone and it’s 2022 which is exactly “2020 too “
— ケイシン|Kei’s Christmas and maths arc (@cxtriia) December 22, 2021
2022 y las ternas pitagóricas https://t.co/gjDQuqMs0M vía @matescercanas
y gracias a @Connumeros pic.twitter.com/Jb1q2UjpT8— Amadeo Artacho (MatematicasCercanas) (@matescercanas) December 29, 2021
2022 y sus divisoreshttps://t.co/GX6z1WRWMK
a través de @matescercanas y gracias a @Connumeros pic.twitter.com/3oGShbCdRV— Amadeo Artacho (MatematicasCercanas) (@matescercanas) December 28, 2021
2022 = 7^2 + 20^2 + 22^2 + 33^2. Which contains 20 and 22.
— Alexander Farrugia (@farrugiamaths) December 29, 2021
New TikTok video: 2021 and 2022: Are they deficient, abundant, or perfect? pic.twitter.com/7DT7lspk12
— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) December 30, 2021
Well, any multiple of 20 is abundant since 20 itself is abundant. So, since 2020 wasn’t that abundant with good things, I’d think a more accurate test would be to check whether it’s a PRIMITIVE abundant number. Luckily, 2022 is one of those! Happy New Year! 🙂 https://t.co/d6dUg1TiXq pic.twitter.com/IhVaH38yqh
— Math Nerd 1729 (@1729Nerd) December 30, 2021
2022 as a palindromic, ambigrammatic, strobogrammatic, vertically and horizontally symmetric, ʇuoɹɟ oʇ ʞɔɐq puɐ spɹɐʍʞɔɐq uʍop ǝpᴉsd∩ expression #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2022 pic.twitter.com/9QEPEAZoBc
— Maths Ed (@MathsEdIdeas) December 30, 2021
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2022 es un número de Smith de orden 3, porque la suma de sus cifras es la tercera parte de la suma de las de sus factores primos:
Sus cifras: 2+0+2+2=6
Las de sus factores primos: 2+3+3+3+7=18, y 18/6=3
— Antonio Roldán (@Connumeros) December 30, 2021
Happy New Year 2022 wherever you are 🙂 pic.twitter.com/mFLf6XIBGw
— Ed Southall (@edsouthall) December 31, 2021
Every Hogmanay party needs a suitably geeky countdown to the new year…❤️#HappyNewYear2022 #CountdownToTheBells pic.twitter.com/azXCOuydyw
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) December 31, 2021
2022ⁿᵈ prime ± 2022? Still prime!
What a year…#HNY2022 https://t.co/p8pQeFalNO— Chris Smith (@aap03102) December 31, 2021
🎄🎄 Happy New Year 2022 🎄🎄#math2022 #HappyNewYear2022 #2022 #Math #geometry pic.twitter.com/rF2A0Fr0A3
— Ceyhun Köylüce (@MathCeyhun) December 31, 2021
The amazing maths pic.twitter.com/GJ6GneaRp3
— Elícaro2022 (@el_icaro2022) December 31, 2021
Gracias por este 2021 y por el buen rollo ♥️
¡Salud para todos! 🥂 pic.twitter.com/W15IvkLYWs— Tally Numbers | Abel Hernández (@AbelAHR) December 31, 2021
Fun fact
2022 is a Harshad number
2022 ÷ (2+0+2+2) = 337
Happy new year#HAPPYNEWYEAR2022 #maths— Rob Nichols (@TheRealRobN) January 1, 2022
A New Year’s puzzle by @alexbellos in the @guardian 🎉
Check it out. https://t.co/XlXe6Z2LoX
— Maths Scholarships (@Beamathsteacher) January 1, 2022
Hogmanay puzzle.
The hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is 2022 units. The other two sides have integer lengths. Determine their lengths.
Hint: 2022 is a multiple of the sum of two squares.
— Maths.scot (@MathsDotScot) December 31, 2021
2022 Equation#2022NewYear pic.twitter.com/Yx8JdJCf0O
— Sh. Maf (@SMafakher) December 31, 2021
A Happy Year Equation that works for 2022. 337, 3, and 2 are prime factors of 2022. pic.twitter.com/99rdQIeQjO
— Shiraz H. Robinson II | Dr. Quantum | Math God (@QuantumShiraz) January 1, 2022
Fill in the gaps between numbers with mathematical symbol(+,-,*,/) to make sense for the equation:
10_9_8_7_6_5_4_3_2_1 = 2022Clue: Yes it is possible!💯#AcademicTwitter #happynewyear2022 #MTBoS
— Atreyasai (@atreyasci) December 27, 2021
Yes, it does. Using BODMAS, the equation is reduced to : 19*8*13+9*5+1 = 1976+45+1 = 2022
— Harjodh Singh (@harjodh_s) December 31, 2021
Oh, 2022 in base 3 is 2202220. No 1’s. Should we call that a Cantor Number? 👀
— dan bach (@dansmath) January 1, 2022
Interesting fact about 2022:
2021+1=2022
— Howie Hua (@howie_hua) December 31, 2021
2022 = 9 × 8 × (7 + 6) + 543 × 2 × 1
— Algebra Etc. (@AlgebraFact) January 1, 2022
Happy New Year!
🎆 🎉 🎇 pic.twitter.com/yeAwHAuyh2— Mathigon (@MathigonOrg) January 1, 2022
Number theory fact: 2022 is even
— syzygay (@syzygay1) January 1, 2022
Palindrome dates 2022:
1. The big one is Tue 22/02/2022 (or 2/22/22 in m/d/y)
2. Wed 2/2/22
3. The other 22/m/22 formats with m=1,…,9
4. Tue 22 Nov 2022: 22/11/22
5. The m/d/y dates in Feb 20th-28th.
6. The slightly cursed Fri 2 Dec 2022, which ‘works’ in y/m/d as 22/12/2— Peter Rowlett (@peterrowlett) January 1, 2022
— maco (@maco05636886) January 1, 2022
2022 pic.twitter.com/IzAUNkizPZ
— karakfa (@karakfa) January 1, 2022
👽💜
2022←+(670+670+670)+12
— maco (@maco05636886) January 1, 2022
Mathematics.
May you have a happy and healthy 11111100110, filled with wonders and mystic transport to new realms of creativity, bliss, and peace. pic.twitter.com/7QI3UH0lVR
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) January 1, 2022
لتنمية مهارات التفكير الإبداعي
العب و تعلم مع 2022
3 أعداد متتالية مجموعها 2022
4 أعداد متتالية مجموعها 2022
12 عدد متتالي مجموعها 2022#Bergas_Style pic.twitter.com/KyggOn4M6v— الخوارزمي الصغير (@bergasmath) January 1, 2022
Expressing the New year number 2022 in terms of the factorials of numbers 0 to 9. #NewYear2022 #NewYear #Happy2022 pic.twitter.com/ZYVDfbhRHM
— Srinivasa Raghava ζ(1/2 + i σₙ )=0 (@SrinivasR1729) January 1, 2022
May you all have a happy New year and to all the mathematics graduate students, I hope your algebra qualifying exams have the problem of showing that a group of order 2022 cannot be simple.
— Michael Kinyon (@ProfKinyon) January 1, 2022
【2022年から未来へ】
明けましておめでとうございます。
今年もよろしくお願いします！ pic.twitter.com/Munn9JGhyc— ポテト一郎🥔 (@potetoichiro) December 31, 2021
Feb 22nd will be special this year. Specifically at 22:22:22, 22/2/22. Even better, it’s on a Tuesday or 2s-day.
— Joel Willans (@Joelwillans) January 1, 2022
2022 is a multiple of 6 and its digits add to 6. It’s not fancy but I like it. Previous two such years were 1500 and 2004; next two will be 2040 and 2112.
— Matt Parker (@standupmaths) January 1, 2022
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#HAPPYNEWYEAR2022 #MTBoS pic.twitter.com/OM4C43EX8a
— Murat Tepe (@mappsandgrapps) January 1, 2022
— Hassan Shehata (@hassanshehatago) January 1, 2022
#math2022 pic.twitter.com/JFYEdD7RVd
— Ceyhun Köylüce (@MathCeyhun) January 1, 2022
Happy new year everyone! It’s a rather satisfying in Roman numerals: MMXXII
— Tom⇒maths AMIMA (@TeaKayB) January 1, 2022
Quedan 52 días para el mejor momento del año. El 22/02/2022 a las 20:22
— Mates Mike (@mike_mates) January 1, 2022
Estoy seguro de que va a ser un año con estrella
De hecho, tengo una demostración #matemática basada en que 337 es un número estrellado pic.twitter.com/0rimSLTBdm
— Roberto Santos (@rober_fun) January 1, 2022
Find a^2022+1/a^2022 if a^2+a+1=0, a 2022 Special#ChallengingMathProblems #AlgebraicExpressions
via @YouTube @Apple @Desmos @NotabilityApp @googledocs @canva https://t.co/PQm6MaLBg7 pic.twitter.com/4dGgW07n45— SyberMath (@SyberMath) January 1, 2022
In mathematics, 2022 is a HARSHAD number—meaning it is equally divisible by the sum of its digits, 6. The word ‘harshad’ comes from the Sanskrit for ‘joy-giving’. pic.twitter.com/1e2m3mBhXY
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) January 1, 2022
2022 is the smallest number n such that n, n+1, n+2, and n+3 have the maximal exponents in prime factorization equal 1, 2, 3, and 4 correspondingly… #HAPPYNEWYEAR2022 https://t.co/L5HPK4uOzk
— Nalini Joshi (@monsoon0) January 1, 2022
Happy New Year, geeks!
Here are FOUR of my top reasons why 2022 is shaping up to be a belter of a year, Mathswise! https://t.co/LwrWd7sv9W#HappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/TE7eCGzChF
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) January 1, 2022
New Year’s resolution (h/t Greg Kuperberg) pic.twitter.com/aBar6u9QPB
— Jordan Ellenberg (@JSEllenberg) December 31, 2021
Dicen que los tontos son más felices…
Pues 2022 es un número de gran alegría y cateto.#Feliz2022 pic.twitter.com/59LBpcXJZn— Santi Gª Cremades ² (@SantiGarciaCC) January 1, 2022
Moin. Die #palindromischen Formeln zum 1.1.2022 …
2022=1001+2×5×2+1001
2022=12×55+101+5+101+55×21
2022=52×22+3×6+292+6×3+22×25
2022=365×2+2×5×5+66+5×5×2+2×563
112022=1122×33+1001+11+9+11+1001+33×2211#Neujahr #FrohesNeuesJahr #HappyNewYear #FelizAñoNuevo #BonAnyNou pic.twitter.com/kMwErh5IVX
— Das Ambigramm (@AmbigrammDesign) January 1, 2022
Happy 2(MXI) @BossGercek @diegorattaggi @SyberMath @EdwinWa93021333 @PerHenrikChris1 @Math26039335 @le_becachel @Mirangu1 @MathCeyhun @Bannu16750368 @maliuhud @RonySarker71 @Cshearer41 @ohmohm @ilarrosac @M1GU3L_HH @rfbooth @theKamranZamani @cesscabral @Asmit_Dey_ @Eduard16180 pic.twitter.com/hDbkTEfSIQ
— OMF (@makkedavero) January 1, 2022
Bonne année #2022NewYear pic.twitter.com/dqD7tLWoy9
— Mathieu Drillet (@DrilletMathieu) January 1, 2022
I love to imagine circles crammed into parabolas.
This is a mathematics puzzle from Diego Rattaggi, @diegorattaggi, #mathiratti
We are given one circle’s radius of 2021, and we wonder about the radius of the other circle. Source: https://t.co/CZthCOOnOb pic.twitter.com/DPd0bZETvL
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) January 1, 2022
2023 will be a multiple of 7 and its digits add to 7.
2024 will be a multiple of 8 and its digits add up to 8.
2025 will be a multiple of 9 and its digits add up to 9.There are 24 such years in this century.
— Sun Solo (@SunSolo_) January 1, 2022
It’s the last year to have three of the same digits in it until 2111.
— 北欧宅 (@hokuwotaku) January 1, 2022
Stretching this theme a little, 337 is the sixth prime number between 301 and 400.
— dominic (@bockers56) January 1, 2022
Por no discriminar…
¡Una buena hipotenusa no podría existir sin dos buenos catetos! 😝 https://t.co/P0u2IA1Tv2 pic.twitter.com/qOrWMMWDfY— Tally Numbers | Abel Hernández (@TallyNumbers) January 1, 2022
Por no discriminar…
¡Una buena hipotenusa no podría existir sin dos buenos catetos! 😝 https://t.co/P0u2IA1Tv2 pic.twitter.com/qOrWMMWDfY— Tally Numbers | Abel Hernández (@TallyNumbers) January 1, 2022
2022 es el único año de este siglo que es producto de 3 primos ( 2×3×337 ) y que, a la vez, es suma de dos primos consecutivos (1009 + 1013).#MathLife#Feliz2022
— Juan Miguel Ribera (@juanripu) January 1, 2022
Ring in the New Year with your students on @Desmos! Create expressions using 2, 0, 2, and 2 to equal the numbers from 1-100. How many can you get this year? #iteachmath #mtbos https://t.co/RZ2H7pyPGP https://t.co/gQX3xmHudV
— Craig Winske (@seewins) January 1, 2022
Joyful 2022! First of a string of 4 Harshad years. May they be so. pic.twitter.com/KZ9H0Mx3KM
— John Golden (@mathhombre) January 1, 2022
Magic Square of Order 36 With 22 https://t.co/ytjdfbd5qZ
— INDER J. TANEJA (@IJTANEJA) January 2, 2022
Representation of Numbers from 1 to 10000 in Terms of Palindromic Digits 2022-2202 https://t.co/naCm5ibF53
— INDER J. TANEJA (@IJTANEJA) January 2, 2022
Block-Wise and Block-Bordered Magic Squares With Magic Sum 2022 https://t.co/evvYqDPnOy
— INDER J. TANEJA (@IJTANEJA) December 28, 2021
Mathematical Beauty of 2022 https://t.co/Qzsc1TPY4J
— INDER J. TANEJA (@IJTANEJA) December 27, 2021
My six-year-old made me a calendar for Christmas, and I love it.
(Dear Dad, Do you like Numbers? Then you will love 2022!) pic.twitter.com/NoGNumQe4Y
— Math In The News (@MathInTheNews) January 1, 2022
Going to give my students the 2022 Challenge tomorrow. I haven’t done this yearly number challenge since 2019 when the choice of digits was a bit nicer.
It will be interesting to see how many we can find! #mtbos #iteachmath #teach180 pic.twitter.com/MeMpMeipHV
— Sarah Carter (@mathequalslove) January 3, 2022
A 3-D version for the new year: work out that diagonal length. You’re in for a major surprise…. https://t.co/sppR38qiN2 pic.twitter.com/Tmvmik2xJN
— Chris Smith (@aap03102) January 1, 2022
I’ll end with this thread that you’ll just have to click on to appreciate. It’s packed with tons of mathematical reasons 2022 will a fabulous year!
Happy New Year! 2022 will be historic for numerous wonderful reasons.
How can I be so sure of that? Math!
A thread: 👇🧵 pic.twitter.com/K0BY5pbz3e
— Scott Kominers (@skominers) January 1, 2022
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