TITLE: Is there nothing to look forward to next year?
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: For all its ups and downs as a year, 2017 is a prime number. However, after midnight, the year is 2018. It is not a prime number! It is also...

not a fibonacci number
not a Bell number
not a perfect number
not a factorial
not a catalan number

...and so on. The only good thing Wolfram Alpha has to say about $2018$ is that it's a divisor of $87^{18} - 1$, but I see nothing special about that.
So please help me out: What is the best thing to toast to when 2018 arrives?

REPLY [2 votes]: We can look forward to less evil, at least. 2017 is a very evil number.  I have two proofs of this.

Note that 5 is the number of Satan and that "derangement" is a nasty word.  How many derangements are there of 5?  44.  So 44 is evil compounded.  Also note that we had this nice pattern: 3, 5, 7, ... where all the odds were prime. What screwed it up?  9.  Evil, evil 9.  Is it any wonder that Christ died "at the 9th hour?"   So we have 9 and 44, already evil compounded.  Let's re-compound them by squaring and re-re-compound them by adding the results:

$$9^2+44^2 = 2017.$$
Chilling, no?  There's more"

We know that gambling is evil and in craps the phrase is "7, 11 or doubles."
To get "doubles" let's take 7 twice: 7, 7, 11.  There's a multi-set of evil.  Let's super-compound them by cubing (and note that dice are cubes!) and add:

$$7^3+7^3 + 11^3 = 2017.$$
Thankfully, there are only a few hours left in this horrible year.  Let's hope we make it to 2018.