divisors
- plural of divisor.
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As is common in number theory, the conjecture deals with prime numbers that exactly divide a given number—what mathematicians call prime divisors.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
In practice divisors, will have degrees less than or equal to the degree of .
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
Prime numbers are still divisible by themselves and by 1, of course, but they have no other divisors.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2013
The videos were each about 10 minutes long and contained two elements: his blackboard-style diagrams—Khan happens to be an excellent sketcher—and his voice-over explaining things like greatest common divisors and equivalent fractions.
From BusinessWeek ● May 19, 2011
Leaves 17 to 25 are tables of the divisors of odd numbers up to 20,300.
From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Stevens, Henry
