Divisible

"Divisible" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Among the divisors of 90, how many numbers are not divisible by 9?

Prime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves.

Odd numbers are not divisible by two.

This conception of matter, as infinitely divisible and continuous, was taught by Anaxagoras more than four centuries before the Christian era, and in the philosophy of Aristotle the same ideas are found.

One of her quirks is that she finds numbers divisible by five particularly pleasing.

Seven isn't divisible by two.

Bitcoin is divisible by 100 million. 1 part is called satoshi.

A prime number is a whole number greater than one which is divisible only by itself and the number one.

N is evenly divisible by m.

57 is known at the "Grothendieck prime": aside from itself and 1, it is also divisible by 3 and 19 and hence not prime at all, but as the story goes, the famous mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, whose name represents an even higher level of abstraction than the already abstract, is said to have given it as a (mistaken) concrete example, which is shocking coming from such a prominent mathematician. It shows how very little he cared for the concrete.

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Near-synonyms: separable, separatable

Just as 12 is divisible by 3, so is 48 divisible by 12.

The compoſition of Bodies, whether it be of Diviſibles or Indiviſibles, is a queſtion which must be rank'd with the Indiſſolvibles: For though it hath been attempted by the moſt illuſtrious Wits of all Philoſophick Ages; yet they have done little elſe, but ſhewn their own diviſions to be almoſt as infinite, as ſome ſuppoſe thoſe of their Subject.

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