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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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
A prime number is a number that has exactly two distinct divisors: itself and 1.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2018
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
To find the smallest number that has a given number of divisors we must proceed by trial.
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney
