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What is a divisor?

What is a divisor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (arithmetic) A number or expression that another is to be divided by.
  2. An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times.
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It is possible to use short division for problems having more than one digit in the divisor.
This then becomes the divisor to determine the piece count from the weight of an unknown quantity of countable parts.
His famous Euclidean algorithm, when applied to a pair of natural numbers, leads in a finite number of steps to their greatest common divisor.
The first, Proposition 2 of Book VII, is a procedure for finding the greatest common divisor of two whole numbers.
I will support a motion that refers to the best 12 weeks as the divisor, and I will gladly vote in favour of the NDP motion on Tuesday.
In arithmetic operations it holds the addend, subtrahend, multiplicand, or divisor.

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