What are the divisors of 5957?

1, 7, 23, 37, 161, 259, 851, 5957

There is a total of 8 positive divisors.
The sum of these divisors is 7296.
The arithmetic mean is 912.

8 odd divisors

1, 7, 23, 37, 161, 259, 851, 5957

How to compute the divisors of 5957?

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 5957 by each of the numbers from 1 to 5957 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)

5957 / 1 = 5957 (the remainder is 0, so 1 is a divisor of 5957)
5957 / 2 = 2978.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 5957)
5957 / 3 = 1985.6666666667 (the remainder is 2, so 3 is not a divisor of 5957)
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5957 / 5956 = 1.0001678979181 (the remainder is 1, so 5956 is not a divisor of 5957)
5957 / 5957 = 1 (the remainder is 0, so 5957 is a divisor of 5957)

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 5957 (i.e. 77.18160402583). 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 $\frac{N}{d} = D$ )

5957 / 1 = 5957 (the remainder is 0, so 1 and 5957 are divisors of 5957)
5957 / 2 = 2978.5 (the remainder is 1, so 2 is not a divisor of 5957)
5957 / 3 = 1985.6666666667 (the remainder is 2, so 3 is not a divisor of 5957)
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5957 / 76 = 78.381578947368 (the remainder is 29, so 76 is not a divisor of 5957)
5957 / 77 = 77.363636363636 (the remainder is 28, so 77 is not a divisor of 5957)