The dromedary, or one-humped camel, was described by Linnaeus in 1758. There are no true wild dromedaries in the world today-they were domesticated between 4,000 and 2,000 B.C.E. for travel, meat and milk, and running, and became extinct in the wild around 2000 years ago.
Dividends and divisors are the two key ingredients that yield the quotient, or answer, to a division problem. The dividend is the number being divided, while the divisor is the number by which the dividend is divided. In other words, given aÃ·b, a is the dividend and b is the divisor.
Division is often shown in algebra and science by placing the dividend over the divisor with a horizontal line, also called a fraction bar, between them. For example, a divided by b is written. This can be read out loud as a divided by b, a by b or a over b.