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Math Hacks for Scratch
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Math Hacks for Scratch

by Michael Mays
October 2024
Beginner to intermediate
200 pages
6h 58m
English
No Starch Press
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Exploring Divisibility and Primes

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You can add, subtract, or multiply any two integers and get an integer back. But when you divide one integer by another, the answer doesn’t have to be an integer. The special case when the result of the division is an integer is worth noticing. Also notable are those rare cases where a number can’t be cleanly divided by any numbers besides 1 and itself. We call those prime numbers.

In this chapter, we’ll investigate these two interesting phenomena. These concepts are fundamental to number theory, the study of the properties and mathematics of integers. Number theory is used for everything from random number ...

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