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Anonymous Thu Jul 12 21:53:40 2012 No.4866793 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /sci/, /sp/ here (part time /sci/entist).

Is there a word for an even number that when divided by 2 is also even?

I wanted to say "There needs to be an X number of teams" (X being the word) when describing the MLB (it'd be great if there were 32 teams so that both leagues had 16 teams and would rely less on interleague).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 21:58:10 2012 No.4866804 "Contains 2^2 or 2^3 or ... 2^n as a factor" (however many times you need the number to be divisible by 2). I don't know of a more succinct phrase, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 21:59:41 2012 No.4866810 >>4866804 This. There isn't any special term.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:03:10 2012 No.4866818 DOUBLE EVEN, DUHH

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:03:10 2012 No.4866819 "divisible by 4"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:10:26 2012 No.4866826 It's called divisible by 4, dickwad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:13:10 2012 No.4866829 File: 31 KB, 497x500, 1281244482721.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4866818 I'll take it! >>4866826 "There needs to be a divisible by 4, dickwad number of teams" I wanted a better way of saying it. Oh well. Thanks anyway guys.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:21:40 2012 No.4866835 there needs to be four divisions of teams

Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:30:10 2012 No.4866849
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>>4866835
The problem with that is that it suggests splitting it up into 4 different parts when all we want is to keep it split at 2 but having the divided teams be even.

I just went with "Both leagues need to have an even number of teams"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:31:55 2012 No.4866853 >>4866829 "The number of teams must be divisible by 4"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 22:38:41 2012 No.4866868 multiple of 4.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 00:12:25 2012 No.4867090 >>4866868 Win

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 02:23:11 2012 No.4867392 OP it would mean your number is divisible by four. This means you can divide for into it with no remainder.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 04:25:40 2012 No.4867653 >>4866804 You can also say "it has to have at least two (or three, or N) factors of 2". Not as rigorous but gets the idea across.

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