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Over the next few decades, Irving Kaplansky, one of the leading mathematicians of the 20th century, popularized this conjecture along with two other group algebra conjectures called the zero divisor and idempotent conjectures; the three came to be known as the Kaplansky conjectures.
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Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
The divisor is currently 0.1517.
—Allan Sloan, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
Your new divisor would be 1.0571.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
But to keep things like stock splits and changes in its component stocks from distorting the Dow, its administrators created something called the Dow divisor.
—Allan Sloan, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
Dreyer began the lesson by writing an estimating quotient example involving a two-digit divisor on the whiteboard and asked students to raise their hand and share their observations, including possible paths to solving the problem.
—cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
For example, for long division, students used colored pencils to match the strokes of the divisor in the dividend.
—Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2022
Using that new divisor, life expectancy will be reduced by one each year.
—Julie Jason, Jd, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
The current divisor on the Dow Jones Industrial Average is 0.1517.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
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Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2021
The divisor is currently 0.1517.
—Allan Sloan, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
Your new divisor would be 1.0571.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
But to keep things like stock splits and changes in its component stocks from distorting the Dow, its administrators created something called the Dow divisor.
—Allan Sloan, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
Dreyer began the lesson by writing an estimating quotient example involving a two-digit divisor on the whiteboard and asked students to raise their hand and share their observations, including possible paths to solving the problem.
—cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
For example, for long division, students used colored pencils to match the strokes of the divisor in the dividend.
—Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2022
Using that new divisor, life expectancy will be reduced by one each year.
—Julie Jason, Jd, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
The current divisor on the Dow Jones Industrial Average is 0.1517.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
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15th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Divisor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divisor. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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divisor
noun
di·vi·sor
də-ˈvī-zər 
: the number by which a dividend is divided
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