Jim Murphy wrote: > Ok, so it's a bit off topic. It still seems to be "in-thread"... > This test about divisibility reminds me of my grade school maths teacher who > gave us these rules for divisibility, up to and including, 12. Interesting. I've been also taught some of these rules, but never tried to remember them, until a few threads here about finding a remainder without doing a division. > 8. Are the last three digits divisible by 3? They should be divisible by 8 I think. Try for example 1016. Nikolai -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads