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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "How can you have a \"common\" divisor, greatest or otherwise, of a single number? The idea of a common divisor is that two or more numbers share a divisor -- which is to say, they have the divisor in common. Sort of like saying that a common trait of redheads is that they have red hair.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The greatest divisor of any number is itself, but I suspect that trivial fact of being decidedly unhelpful.\r
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