Blind Melon gets all educational and shit, and I provide you with a quick math lesson
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Taken from the "School House Rock Rocks" album, this song holds a special place in my heart (although the best song on the album was, by far, Ween's cover of "The Shot Heard 'Round The World"), since I'm a numbers geek.
Not quantum sciences or statistical math or calculus or any of that braniac stuff, but I still remember in Grade 5, being taught the basic rules of how you can tell a if a number is divisible simply by looking at it.
Want to know if a number is divisible by 2? Just look to see if it's odd or even. DIvisible by 3? Well, add up all of the numbers in that number, i.e. 763- 7+6+3=16. Can you divide that by 3? No? Then you're SOL. 978? Good to go.
You can divide any number by 4 provided the last two numbers in the string are factors of 4. 5- if the number ends in a 5 or a 0. 6? Divisible by 2 AND 3.
8? Last three numbers in the string are factors of 8 (that is, 338 isn't, but 907,432 is). Nine is the same as 3, but the numbers in the string need to add up to 9.
There's no rule for 7, you need to do the actual math for that one. But play around, and you'll see that the rest of the rules hold true.
Metal.
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