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2016 may well be a hot year (global warming being what it is), and it may well be a great vintage for wine-growing regions, but here at Tangente what interests us is numbers. And, number-wise, 2016, which is written 25 × 32 × 7, is well stocked with divisors, at least, since it has 36 of them — who can beat that? Large as it is, this number confers hardly any extraordinary properties on 2016, except that the sum of these divisors, excluding 2016 itself, is 4536, which makes our vintage year an abundant number (it is less than the sum of its proper divisors).
Mireille Schumacher, however, found a way to wish you a sparkling new year 2016 by way of one of the divisors of 2016 — one that has the same prime divisors as 2016 and that gives a very particular meaning to the expression going all the way around the clock!

Life Clock, by Bertrand Planes, is read on the scale of a lifetime — a life expectancy of… 84 years. The clock's movement has been slowed down roughly 60,000 times. At the time of the photograph, the clock's owner was not yet 35 years old.