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Oh honey, divisibility rules have been around longer than your grandma's secret meatloaf recipe. But if you want a name to drop at your next trivia night, credit goes to good ol' Euclid. He's the OG mathematician who laid down the law on how numbers can play nice and divide evenly.

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The divisibility rules were not invented by a single individual, but rather developed over time by mathematicians through observation and exploration of number patterns. The rules for divisibility by 2, 3, 5, and 10 can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians and Greeks. The more complex rules for divisibility by numbers like 7, 11, and 13 were further refined by mathematicians in the Middle Ages and beyond. These rules are now fundamental concepts in elementary number theory.

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