• Nougat
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    381 day ago

    51 --> 5+1 = 6, 6 is divisible by 3. This means that 51 is divisible by 3.

    60 is divisible by 3, 60/3 = 20.

    51 is 9 less than 60. 9 is divisible by 3. 9/3 = 3.

    20 - 3 = 17.

    • @[email protected]
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      Only way I managed it to make sense is:

      17 is 10 and 7

      10 * 3 = 30

      7 * 3 = 21

      30 + 21 = 51

      Phuu air. I can breath again. Don’t do this to me.

      • @[email protected]
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        221 hours ago

        This is how I see it, 30 + 21, doesn’t come up that often obviously, but also we don’t have to love every composite number. In fact, we hates most of them. Add 51 to the pile.

      • @testfactor
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        Yep. If the sun of the numbers is divisible by 3, the number is divisible by three.

        Works great for 6 too, as if it’s divisible by 3 and even, the number is divisible by 6.

        And 9 is the same thing, but the sum has to be divisible by 9 (e.g. 12384 is divisible by 9 because the sum of the digits is 18, which is divisible by 9)

        There’s also good rules for 4 and 8 as well. If the last 2 digits are divisible by 4, the whole number is (e.g. 127924 is divisible by 4 because 24 is) and if the last 3 numbers are divisible by 8, the whole number is (e.g. 12709832 is divisible by 8 because 832 is.)

        • @[email protected]
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          81 day ago

          You just casually dropping in that 832 is divisible by 8 makes me feel as if there’s a small gap in our abilities to do mental math

          • @[email protected]
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            924 hours ago

            832 is 800 + 32

            800 is obviously divisible by 8, so it can also be negated like the first few digits. 32 is also divisible by 8.

            • @GrammarPolice
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              This is insane stuff. 13 is truly mesmerizing. Although I don’t think I’m sharp enough for the proofs. Even the divisibility by 2 proof looks hellish.

          • @TempermentalAnomaly
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            221 hours ago

            I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this comment section is too narrow to contain.

          • Hjalmar
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            21 day ago

            Il do it for disability by three and a three digit numbers with the digits a, b and c. The value of that number then is 100a + 10b + c. They concept is the same for nine.

            100a + 10b + a mod 3 =
            a + b + a
            

            This means that, mod 3, a three digit number is equivalent to the sum of it’s digits and therefore preserves disability by 3.

      • Seeker of Carcosa
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        101 day ago

        Divisibility by 3 rule is real. If the sum of the digits of a number is divisible by 3, then the number itself is also divisible by 3. Same goes with 9. There’s an 11 rule, but it’s a bit convoluted.