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The Number 26
26 is composite: factorization 2 × 13. That gives 26 exactly 4 divisors: 1, 2, 13, 26. 26's proper divisors total just 16, 10 short of 26, the deficient case most of 26's neighbors share too. 26 has a digit sum of 8; for 26, the digital root works out to 8. 26: 2 all divide 26 evenly, out of 2-12. 26 is 11010 in binary and 1A in hex; as a Roman numeral it's XXVI.