[Zhang 2022](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02515) proves a somewhat suspicious formula:


$$L(1,\chi) \gg (\log D)^{-2022}$$


This raises the obvious-but-frivolous question: did he intentionally weaken the constant to get the current year?



Did Zhang weaken the constant in his Landau-Siegel zero paper to get the current year?
According to himself, yes. The following is a link to some of his comments that he posted on a Chinese forum.
<https://www.zhihu.com/question/564799818/answer/2752632822>



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> Regarding the question of whether the fixed power of logD , which is taken for many parameters in the paper, is to get the number 2022, in terms of the Landau-Siegel zero itself, that should be a power of logD, and the conjectured should actually be -1. My method can lead to an exponent of negative several hundred which I did not calculate carefully, yet I can guarantee -2022. Since this year is 2022, I chose it casually. Often people do this kind of thing, so this also does not have any special meaning, just like the previous 70 million (in the bounded gaps between primes paper).
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