What are the divisors of 5?

1, 5

There is a total of 2 positive divisors.
The sum of these divisors is 6.
The arithmetic mean is 3.

2 odd divisors

1, 5

How to compute the divisors of 5?

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.

$N mod M = 0$

Brute force algorithm

We could start by using a brute-force method which would involve dividing 5 by each of the numbers from 1 to 5 to determine which ones have a remainder equal to 0.

$Remainder = N - (M \times ⌊ \frac{N}{M} ⌋)$

(where $⌊ \frac{N}{M} ⌋$ is the integer part of the quotient)

5 / 1 = 5 (the remainder is 0, so 1 is a divisor of 5)
5 / 2 = 2.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 5)
5 / 3 = 1.6666666666667 (the remainder is 2, so 3 is not a divisor of 5)
...
5 / 4 = 1.25 (the remainder is 1, so 4 is not a divisor of 5)
5 / 5 = 1 (the remainder is 0, so 5 is a divisor of 5)

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 5 (i.e. 2.2360679774998). Indeed, if a number N has a divisor D greater than its square root, then there is necessarily a smaller divisor d such that:

$D \times d = N$

(thus, if $\frac{N}{D} = d$ , then $\frac{N}{d} = D$ )

5 / 1 = 5 (the remainder is 0, so 1 and 5 are divisors of 5)
5 / 2 = 2.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 5)