Marissa Mayer

I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just love how divisible it is. I don't like odd numbers, and I really don't like primes. When I turned 37, I put on a strong face, but I was not looking forward to 37. But 37 turned out to be a pretty amazing year.

American Businesswoman

James C. Maxwell

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

Scottish Mathematician

Clive Sinclair

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

British Author

Philip Guedalla

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

English Historian

Jean Guitton

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

French Philosopher

John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

English Writer

Max Beerbohm

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

English Actor

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Used especially in math to discuss numbers and their relationships.

Mathematical Context

Emphasizes an even distribution without anything left over.

No Remainders

Involves simple calculations to check division without remainders.

Testing Divisibility

Applies to dividing parts of anything, not just numerical division.

Beyond Numbers

Focus on dividing while preserving the integrity of the whole.

Maintaining Wholeness

Often used to describe the structure of texts or objects.

Structural Division

 Now, remember that the fish are equally distributed across all the tanks. Why is that important? Because it means that one of the possible values for the total amount of fish must be divisible by one of the possible values for the total amount of tanks.

Can you solve the fish...

 have otherwise appeared so every hundred years you have over corrected by a leap day by an entire day so every hundred years 100 years are divisible by four aren't they every hundred years you take out the

The Leap Year as...

 is not divisible. Look at this picture. Can you tell me where has it been taken from, and what is it meant for? Anybody? I'm a professor; I must quiz you. Anybody? Any guess at all? Pardon?

Divisible