base 36 can be expressed as 0..9,a..z. (there is some awkwardness of letters which look like numerals. we ignore this awkwardness.)
36 conveniently has many divisors:
2*18 0123456789abcdefgh ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
3*12 0123456789ab cdefghijklmn opqrstuvwxyz
4* 9 012345678 9abcdefgh ijklmnopq rstuvwxyz
6* 6 012345 6789ab cdefgh ijklmn opqrst uvwxyz
9* 4 0123 4567 89ab cdef ghij klmn opqr stuv wxyz
12*3 012 345 678 9ab cde fgh ijk lmn opq rst uvw xyz
18*2 01 23 45 67 89 ab cd ef gh ij kl mn op qr st uv wx yz
aliquot sum = sum of divisors not including itself but including 1 = 55. 36 is therefore an abundant number.
55 or 55+36 = 91 might be a good deck of cards, each card getting one of the letter chunks above.
multiples of divisors, i.e., numbers x such that gcd(36,x) is not 1, can be read off as the first character of each chunk.
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