Binary division rules

You might be familiar with divisibility rules such as “A number is divisible by 3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3”. You can see some more here.

Our investigation today was – can we develop a set of divisibility rules for binary numbers?

Divisible by 2

This was straightforward. If the rightmost (unit) digit is 0 then the number is divisible by 2.

e.g. The number 6 is divisible by 2

but the number 7 is not

Can you extend this logic to create a divisibility rule for powers of 2 (e.g. 4, 8, 16 …)? Solution

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