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A number that owes another number money and always pays it back exactly.
means A number that can be divided evenly by another number, with nothing left over.
from From Latin 'multiplex' — 'multi' (many) plus 'plicare' (to fold) — the same root that gives us 'multiply.' The image is literally of folding something over many times, layer upon layer, which is tidier than it sounds: each fold lands exactly where the last one did, no ragged edges.
- not divisor
- multiple goes up, divisor goes down, people mix them up constantly
- infinite supply
- every number has infinitely many multiples, zero included oddly
- zero exception
- zero is a multiple of every number, the ultimate freeloader