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Now leap years divisible by 100, like the year 1900, are skipped unless they're also divisible by 400, like the year 2000, in which case they're observed.

But what Hokusai and his successors affirm over and over is that there’s no such thing as a pure “culture” divisible from others — not even the culture of a shogunate whose subjects couldn’t leave on pain of death.

Upon being reminded of its initial answer, ChatGPT offered a daft explanation, including a claim that “we cannot use 1, 4, or 6 as the first digit of a three-digit prime, as the resulting numbers would be divisible by 3.”

This is patently false: you can recognize numbers divisible by 3 because their digits total a number divisible by 3.

In 1987, for example, the military government in Burma issued new bank notes whose face value was a number divisible by nine.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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