dividing

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At that time, an open-ended mutual fund’s NAV is calculated by dividing the value of all its investments and cash by the number of shares.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

The start-up quickly went viral, with thousands sharing the news and dividing opinions on social media.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

If you kept dividing an apple into smaller and smaller pieces, you would eventually reach molecules, then atoms, and later the tiny particles inside atoms such as protons, quarks, and gluons.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

“These operators earn money by dividing pupils into different groups,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

He also wrote a book about the Hindu numeral system, which allowed the new style of numbers to spread quickly through the Arab world—along with algorithms, the tricks for multiplying and dividing Hindu numerals quickly.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife