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  2. Division (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    What is being divided is called the dividend, which is divided by the divisor, and the result is called the quotient. At an elementary level the division of two natural numbers is, among other possible interpretations, the process of calculating the number of times one number is contained within another.

  3. Divisibility rule - Wikipedia

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    If the thousands digit is odd, the number formed by the last three digits must be 8 times an odd number. 3408: 408 = 8 × 51. Add the last two digits to four times the rest. The result must be divisible by 16. 176: 1 × 4 + 76 = 80, 1,168: 11 × 4 + 68 = 112. The last four digits must be divisible by 16. [2] [3] 157,648: 7,648 = 478 × 16. 17

  4. Division by zero - Wikipedia

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    Zero divided by a negative or positive number is either zero or is expressed as a fraction with zero as numerator and the finite quantity as denominator. Zero divided by zero is zero. In 830, Mahāvīra unsuccessfully tried to correct the mistake Brahmagupta made in his book Ganita Sara Samgraha: "A number remains unchanged when divided by zero ...

  5. Elementary arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Dividing 272 and 8, starting with the hundreds digit, 2 is not divisible by 8. Add 20 and 7 to get 27. The largest number that the divisor of 8 can be multiplied by without exceeding 27 is 3, so it is written under the tens column. Subtracting 24 (the product of 3 and 8) from 27 gives 3 as the remainder.

  6. Division by infinity - Wikipedia

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    The hyperbola = /.As approaches ∞, approaches 0.. In mathematics, division by infinity is division where the divisor (denominator) is ∞.In ordinary arithmetic, this does not have a well-defined meaning, since ∞ is a mathematical concept that does not correspond to a specific number, and moreover, there is no nonzero real number that, when added to itself an infinite number of times ...

  7. Collatz conjecture - Wikipedia

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    Histogram of total stopping times for the numbers 1 to 10 9. Total stopping time is on the x axis, frequency on the y axis. Iteration time for inputs of 2 to 10 7. Total stopping time of numbers up to 250, 1000, 4000, 20000, 100000, 500000. Consider the following operation on an arbitrary positive integer: If the number is even, divide it by ...

  8. Long division - Wikipedia

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    A divisor of any number of digits can be used. In this example, 1260257 is to be divided by 37. First the problem is set up as follows: 37)1260257 Digits of the number 1260257 are taken until a number greater than or equal to 37 occurs. So 1 and 12 are less than 37, but 126 is greater.

  9. Arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Arithmetic operations can be defined as mechanisms that affect how the successor function is applied. For instance, to add to any number is the same as applying the successor function two times to this number. [150] Various axiomatizations of arithmetic rely on set theory.