But if 3n + 1 is not divisible by 4, then is odd, and the orbit will rise. —👁 Image Quanta Magazine,
22 Sep. 2020
In that book, Derek’s mind hums with ideas about landscape, about the body, and how each is not divisible from the other. —👁 Image
Hilton Als,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2017
Then list all the numbers that aren’t divisible by those primes. —👁 Image
Joseph Howlett,
WIRED,
19 Jan. 2025
Then list all the numbers that aren’t divisible by those primes. —👁 Image
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
11 Dec. 2024
Our living — as Black and not yet free — was not divisible from the terror of the white world and the effects those constraints had on us. —👁 Image
Jason Parham,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
To use the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find, say, all the primes up to 100, start with the number two, and cross out any higher number on the list that is divisible by two. —👁 Image Quanta Magazine,
19 May 2013
If this distance is divisible by 8 inches—the finished width of a piece of siding—you're in luck. —👁 Image
Merle Henkenius,
Popular Mechanics,
12 July 2021
If this distance is divisible by 8 inches—the finished width of a piece of siding—you’re in luck. —👁 Image
Merle Henkenius,
Popular Mechanics,
2 May 2023
There are tricks to quickly know if, say, some huge number is divisible by 9 or 11. —👁 Image
Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
6 Dec. 2019
If 3n + 1 is also divisible by 4, then is also even, and the orbit will fall. —👁 Image Quanta Magazine,
22 Sep. 2020
To make matters even more confusing, a leap day is still added in years divisible by 400. —👁 Image
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2024
The fact that 97 is a prime number—divisible only by 1 or itself—is supposed to make the system more secure. —👁 Image
Eugenia Cheng,
WSJ,
20 June 2018
The fact that 97 is a prime number—divisible only by 1 or itself—is supposed to make the system more secure. —👁 Image
Eugenia Cheng,
WSJ,
20 June 2018
So every year that is exactly divisible by 4 is a leap year, in which a 29th day is added to February. —👁 Image Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2020
This can be relatively straightforward when the refresh rate is divisible by the frame rate, as the TV can show multiples of the same frame. —👁 Image
Simon Hill,
Wired,
15 Sep. 2021
This can be relatively straightforward when the refresh rate is divisible by the frame rate, as the TV can show multiples of the same frame. —👁 Image
Simon Hill,
WIRED,
14 July 2023
To be prime, a number needs to avoid being divisible by any whole number smaller than itself (save the number 1). —👁 Image Quanta Magazine,
10 Dec. 2018
Leap day is the result of rounding the extra time to be divisible by four, and adds about 45 minutes to every four-year cycle, according to NASA. —👁 Image
Thomas Goodwin Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Feb. 2024
But, if the year is also evenly divisible by 400, it is then designated a leap year. —👁 Image NBC News,
18 Mar. 2020
The numbers are all divisible by 3 and each number is the square of the previous number, Based on the numbers Hector offers, those rules are correct. —👁 Image Washington Post,
23 Aug. 2017
Even Swift's original Eras Tour lineup had 52 stops and, as stated above, the number is divisible by 13. —👁 Image
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
13 Dec. 2024
That the notion of the endlessly divisible in the world was attended by certain problems. —👁 Image
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Oct. 2022
The petro will be divisible into 100 million units and the minimum exchange unit will be called the mene, according to the draft proposal. —👁 Image
Patricia Laya,
Bloomberg.com,
30 Jan. 2018
The petro will be divisible into 100 million units and the minimum exchange unit will be called the mene, according to the draft proposal. —👁 Image
Patricia Laya,
Bloomberg.com,
30 Jan. 2018
Even numbers get a very low score, odd numbers divisible by 3 are only slightly higher, and so on. —👁 Image Quanta Magazine,
19 Nov. 2013
Numbers ending in 5 can't be prime, and there are tricks for seeing if a number is divisible by 3, 7, 0r other small factors. —👁 Image
George Johnson,
Discover Magazine,
26 Feb. 2013
The primes—numbers that are only divisible by themselves and 1—are the most fundamental building blocks in math. —👁 Image
Joseph Howlett,
WIRED,
19 Jan. 2025
The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves and 1 — are the most fundamental building blocks in math. —👁 Image
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
11 Dec. 2024
Mortgages are another form of debt that are divisible in a divorce. —👁 Image Dallas News,
13 May 2021
There's a bit of math in figuring out when leap years fall under the Gregorian calendar: The year must be divisible by four. —👁 Image
Aliza Chasan,
CBS News,
1 Jan. 2024
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