What are the divisors of 4537?
1, 13, 349, 4537
- There is a total of 4 positive divisors.
- The sum of these divisors is 4900.
- The arithmetic mean is 1225.
4 odd divisors
1, 13, 349, 4537
How to compute the divisors of 4537?
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 4537 by each of the numbers from 1 to 4537 to determine which ones have a remainder equal to 0.
(where is the integer part of the quotient)
- 4537 / 1 = 4537 (the remainder is 0, so 1 is a divisor of 4537)
- 4537 / 2 = 2268.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 4537)
- 4537 / 3 = 1512.3333333333 (the remainder is 1, so 3 is not a divisor of 4537)
- ...
- 4537 / 4536 = 1.0002204585538 (the remainder is 1, so 4536 is not a divisor of 4537)
- 4537 / 4537 = 1 (the remainder is 0, so 4537 is a divisor of 4537)
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 4537 (i.e. 67.357256476196). 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 )
- 4537 / 1 = 4537 (the remainder is 0, so 1 and 4537 are divisors of 4537)
- 4537 / 2 = 2268.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 4537)
- 4537 / 3 = 1512.3333333333 (the remainder is 1, so 3 is not a divisor of 4537)
- ...
- 4537 / 66 = 68.742424242424 (the remainder is 49, so 66 is not a divisor of 4537)
- 4537 / 67 = 67.716417910448 (the remainder is 48, so 67 is not a divisor of 4537)