divisor
noun
a number by which another number, the dividend, is divided.
divisors
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pluralof divisor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Forty-two is also a “practical” number, which means that any integer between 1 and 42 is the sum of a subset of its distinct divisors.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2020
In practice divisors, will have degrees less than or equal to the degree of .
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
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
For example, the smallest number that has seven divisors and no more is 64, while 24 has eight divisors, and might equally fulfil the conditions.
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney
