Multiples of Integers

[Jarin]

Well, considering I'm not very math savvy, I need a bit of help. I'm trying to determine whether one integer is evenly divisible into another integer, IE is 1033343 a multiple of 3, is 105 a multiple of 5, etc. How would one go about determining this in a memory-conservative manner?

Thanks in advance.

[KrisNz]

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Well, considering I'm not very math savvy, I need a bit of help. I'm trying to determine whether one integer is evenly divisible into another integer, IE is 1033343 a multiple of 3, is 105 a multiple of 5, etc. How would one go about determining this in a memory-conservative manner?

Thanks in advance.
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use the '%' operator which gives you the remainder of a division. e.g $i = 5 % 5; #$i=0;

[hadoob024]

You could probably just use the Modulus operator. This basically divides 2 numbers and tells you what the remainder is. So you could test and see if it's equal to 0, and if so, then you know that one number is a multiple of another. Here's an example using the numbers from your example:

[code]
$a = 1033343;
$b = 3;
$result = $a % $b;
if ($result == 0)
       echo 'the two numbers are evenly divisible';
else
       echo 'the two numbers are not evenly divisible';
[/code]

[Jarin]

Never knew that operator existed. Thanks a lot guys, much appreciated!