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Definition of Divisors
1. divisor [n] - See also: divisor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divisors
Literary usage of Divisors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Sum of cubes of divisors of number. Glaisher, JWL Mess. Mth. 21 (1892) 47-.
Sums of divisors. ... products of quantities depending on divisors of number. ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Deficient number is one of which the sum of all its divisors is less than ...
A number such that the sum of ail ita divisors (except itself) is greater than ..."
3. Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1889)
"Hence, since there are a + 1 terms in the first bracket, /3 + 1 in the second,
and so on, it follows that Cor. 2. The number of the divisors of N ..."
4. A Treatise on Algebra by Charles Smith (1893)
"To find the number of divisors of a given number. Let the given number, N,
expressed iu prime factors, be a'bvc" ....... Then it is clear that N is ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1886)
"The following communications were made to the Society : (1) On the sum of the
divisors of a number. By JW L GLAISHER, MA, FRS § 1. ..."
6. The Elements of the Theory of Algebraic Numbers by Legh Wilber Reid (1910)
"divisors of an Integer. We can now exhibit in a very convenient form all divisors
of any given integer, m, and deduce therefrom simple expressions for the ..."
7. Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Mathematical Science: Comprising by Charles Davies, William Guy Peck (1855)
"divisors OF A NUMBER, are those numbers by which it is exactly divisible ; thus,
1,2, 3, 4, 6, and 12, are divisors of 12, because 12 may be divided by each ..."
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