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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "Until I pointed it out, my other half use to hang out the washing making sure that both pegs were the same colour. Now she goes out of her way to make sure they never match." Tell us about bizarre rituals, habits and OCD-like behaviour.

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:33)
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SLVA's story made me think
I'm the opposite. I need to set an alarm that goes off at a number that isn't devisible by 5 ie 7:47 is fine but 7:45 or 7:50 is out...
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:56, 7 replies)
everything can be divided by five!

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:58, closed)
Hehe
OP should've added the word integer somewhere.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:07, closed)
pedants...
the lot of you!
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:17, closed)
The OP was correct:
The definition of divisible is:

A number n is said to be divisible by d if d is a divisor of n.


Further:

A divisor of a number n is a number d which divides n (written d|n), also called a factor.


(http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Divisible.html)
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:55, closed)
or exactly

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 15:35, closed)
But not everything is divisible by 5!

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 17:07, closed)
747?
That's no good. It's an aeroplane. It would have to be 7.46 or 7.48.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:48, closed)

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