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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: a plain English "FizzBuZZ" idiom
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:05:54 -0700
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Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 2/03/2024 4:06 am, Mike Gonta wrote:
>
>>      if the counter is divisible by 3 then
>
> The counter is always divisible by 3.  It is not always *evenly*
> divisible by 3.

In mathematics standard terminology uses "a is divisible by b"
to mean "a is an integer multiple of b".  The "evenly" is not
needed.