Sentence examples for the divisor from inspiring English sources
noun
A number or expression that another is to be divided by.
- In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.
So the divisor is 124 or less.
So the divisor must be larger than 123.
Multiply the denominators all together to get the divisor.
If there is a remainder, name it with the divisor.
(In most cases, of course, there is a remainder that is less than the divisor).
But since the divisor is 124 or less, the number in blue must be 7 x 124 = 868 or less.
Now, let's refresh ourselves wth how long division works: each line marked A above is a multiple of the divisor.
If the divisor was 123, then the dividend (which is 80809 x 123 = 9939507) has only seven digits.
Now take the divisor (12), divide it by the remainder (8), and write the result as 12 = 1 × 8 + 4.
Pre-scaling the divisor via preloaded look-up tables helps in reducing the number of DG iterations, where at most four (out of sixteen) decimal digits of the divisor are stored based on a particular precision analysis.
In this paper, a new algorithm that makes use only of the even multiples of the divisor is proposed.
