Sentence examples for divisor from inspiring English sources
The word "divisor" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a number that divides into another number exactly without a remainder, or to refer to a thing that serves to divide or separate something else. For example: "The divisor of 10 and 5 is 2."
noun
A number or expression that another is to be divided by.
- In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.
Over time the divisor has been adjusted to take account of stock splits.A dollar increase in the share price of the biggest firm thus has the same impact on the Dow as a dollar increase in the share price of the smallest one.
In the case of Sir Donald Bradman, Australia's most famous batsman, this reached near perfection: a fraction under 100 runs per innings over a 20-year international career.But batting averages can be distorted by a quirk innings in which the batsman is not out are included in the total but excluded from the divisor.
He later defined a prime as a number "measured by a unit alone" (i.e., whose only proper divisor is 1), a composite as a number that is not prime, and a perfect number as one that equals the sum of its "parts" (i.e., its proper divisors).
Each time a party wins a seat, the divisor for that party increases by the same integer, which thus reduces its chances of winning the next seat.
Multiply the denominators all together to get the divisor.
These algorithms are set up on the surface in the same way as is a division: at the top, the "quotient"; under it, the "dividend"; one row below, the "divisor"; at the bottom, auxiliary computations.
A Greek bearing gifts Papandreou's people ReprintsJean-Pierre Bourguignon, director of the Institute of Higher Scientific Studies, says numbers like 12 and 60 are more interesting, because they have more divisors.
In an abundant number, the sum of its proper divisors (i.e., including 1 but excluding the number itself) is greater than the number; in a deficient number, the sum of its proper divisors is less than the number.
(These divisors actually are coefficients of the equations that underlie the root extractions).
These investigations reached a climax when Joseph Fourier (1768 1830) discovered that almost any periodic function can be expressed as an infinite sum of sine and cosine functions, whose periods are integral divisors of the period of the original function.
Moreover, in setting up the algorithms, the divisors were arranged one above the other, yielding a place-value notation for the underlying equations: the row in which a number occurred was associated with the power of the unknown whose coefficient it was.
