What are the divisors of 4818?
1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 22, 33, 66, 73, 146, 219, 438, 803, 1606, 2409, 4818
- There is a total of 16 positive divisors.
- The sum of these divisors is 10656.
- The arithmetic mean is 666.
8 even divisors
2, 6, 22, 66, 146, 438, 1606, 4818
8 odd divisors
1, 3, 11, 33, 73, 219, 803, 2409
How to compute the divisors of 4818?
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 4818 by each of the numbers from 1 to 4818 to determine which ones have a remainder equal to 0.
(where is the integer part of the quotient)
- 4818 / 1 = 4818 (the remainder is 0, so 1 is a divisor of 4818)
- 4818 / 2 = 2409 (the remainder is 0, so 2 is a divisor of 4818)
- 4818 / 3 = 1606 (the remainder is 0, so 3 is a divisor of 4818)
- ...
- 4818 / 4817 = 1.0002075980901 (the remainder is 1, so 4817 is not a divisor of 4818)
- 4818 / 4818 = 1 (the remainder is 0, so 4818 is a divisor of 4818)
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 4818 (i.e. 69.411814556313). 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 )
- 4818 / 1 = 4818 (the remainder is 0, so 1 and 4818 are divisors of 4818)
- 4818 / 2 = 2409 (the remainder is 0, so 2 and 2409 are divisors of 4818)
- 4818 / 3 = 1606 (the remainder is 0, so 3 and 1606 are divisors of 4818)
- ...
- 4818 / 68 = 70.852941176471 (the remainder is 58, so 68 is not a divisor of 4818)
- 4818 / 69 = 69.826086956522 (the remainder is 57, so 69 is not a divisor of 4818)