Divisor 10609
- Prime Number:
- No, but it is a power of a prime: 1032
Test for Divisibility by 10609
To determine if any number is divisible by 10609, apply this test:
- If your number ("X") has 9 digits or more, separate the last (smallest) 8 digits from the rest. This makes two smaller numbers, call them Left and Right (note: don't add in trailing zeros to L). If there are fewer than 9 digits, L = 0 and therefore R = X.
- Multiply L by 434 and subtract this from R.
- Take that result and cross off its final digit (units). Take this new number and add 1061 times the digit you just crossed off. Call this final result "Y".
- Y will be much smaller than X, but we have preserved divisibility by 10609. That is, your original number is divisible by 10609 if (and only if) Y is. Now that it's much smaller, with basic knowledge of your 10609-times tables, it should be easy to visually see if Y is divisible by 10609. If the Y is still much larger than 10609, the above process can be repeated until it does reduce to within small multiples of 10609.
Easy!