What are the divisors of 1379?
1, 7, 197, 1379
- There is a total of 4 positive divisors.
- The sum of these divisors is 1584.
- The arithmetic mean is 396.
4 odd divisors
1, 7, 197, 1379
How to compute the divisors of 1379?
A number N is said to be divisible by a number M (with M non-zero) if, when we divide N by M, the remainder of the division is zero.
Brute force algorithm
We could start by using a brute-force method which would involve dividing 1379 by each of the numbers from 1 to 1379 to determine which ones have a remainder equal to 0.
(where is the integer part of the quotient)
- 1379 / 1 = 1379 (the remainder is 0, so 1 is a divisor of 1379)
- 1379 / 2 = 689.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 1379)
- 1379 / 3 = 459.66666666667 (the remainder is 2, so 3 is not a divisor of 1379)
- ...
- 1379 / 1378 = 1.0007256894049 (the remainder is 1, so 1378 is not a divisor of 1379)
- 1379 / 1379 = 1 (the remainder is 0, so 1379 is a divisor of 1379)
Improved algorithm using square-root
However, there is another slightly better approach that reduces the number of iterations by testing only integers less than or equal to the square root of 1379 (i.e. 37.134889255254). Indeed, if a number N has a divisor D greater than its square root, then there is necessarily a smaller divisor d such that:
(thus, if , then )
- 1379 / 1 = 1379 (the remainder is 0, so 1 and 1379 are divisors of 1379)
- 1379 / 2 = 689.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 1379)
- 1379 / 3 = 459.66666666667 (the remainder is 2, so 3 is not a divisor of 1379)
- ...
- 1379 / 36 = 38.305555555556 (the remainder is 11, so 36 is not a divisor of 1379)
- 1379 / 37 = 37.27027027027 (the remainder is 10, so 37 is not a divisor of 1379)