Examples
- 7 is a divisor of 42 because, so we can say . It can also be said that 42 is divisible by 7, 42 is a multiple of 7, 7 divides 42, or 7 is a factor of 42.
- The non-trivial divisors of 6 are 2, −2, 3, −3.
- The positive divisors of 42 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42.
- The set of all positive divisors of 60, partially ordered by divisibility, has the Hasse diagram:
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