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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Divisibility rules]]
* [[Divisibility rules]]
* [[Number theory]]

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Divisibility is the ability of a number to be evenly divided by another number. For example, four divided by two is equal to two, and therefore, four is divisible by two.

Notation

We commonly write $n|k$. This means that n is a divisor of k. So for the example above, we would write 2|4.


See also