I learnt it first as a math trick for children in Vietnam: to know if something is divisible by 9, you calculate its digitial root and see if the digital root is divisible by 9 (same goes for 3).
When I grew up, I was curious and tried to prove that mathematically, which is how I ended up with digitalRoot(num) = num % 9 (or 9 if divisible by 9) :D
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I learnt it first as a math trick for children in Vietnam: to know if something is divisible by 9, you calculate its digitial root and see if the digital root is divisible by 9 (same goes for 3).
When I grew up, I was curious and tried to prove that mathematically, which is how I ended up with digitalRoot(num) = num % 9 (or 9 if divisible by 9) :D
mathworld.wolfram.com/DigitalRoot....
Looking good in this corner of the thread!