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"What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20?" Is it different from divisible?

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    It is a school version of "divisible." Used to be fairly common.2011-08-19
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    $\rm m\ $ evenly divides $\rm\ n\ $ means simply that $\rm\ n/m\ $ is an integer. The "evenly" presumably means that the remainder upon division is $\:0\:.\:$2011-08-19
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    Subareas of mathematics have their own conventions. Is $-5$ a divisor of $20$? Probably one would be expected to answer yes. What is the sum of the divisors of $20$? Probably one would not be expected to say $0$. It sort of makes sense to qualify divisible, when one means that the quotient is an integer. After all, $5/20=0.25$. But the fact is that in mathematics beyond school mathematics, "evenly divisible" is uncommon.2011-08-19
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    This is an interesting problem. Is the answer $\dfrac{20!}{10!}$? I discarded the numbers 1-10. If the number is evenly divisible by multiples, then it is divisible by the number.2011-08-20
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    @mathguy80: The problem is just to find the least common multiple of $1, 2, \dots, 20$. Working it out, this is less than $\frac{20!}{10!}$.2011-08-20
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    I cleaned up @Andre's comment above, so the display problem should be fixed. So I also removed the discussion pertaining to *that*.2011-08-20
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    @Willie Wong: Thank you. Is there anything that I could have done, beside better proofreading?2011-08-20
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    @Andre: here's a bit of a 'hack' that sometimes works for me http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/2652/comments-layout-break-if-math-expression-is-too-long/2818#28182011-08-20
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    @AndréNicolas Actually, it's English rather than "school". Even means, among other things, equal or fair; so an even division is one where every portion is the same and there is no remainder.2018-12-08

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