It's common practice to use a divide-by-N circuit to create a free-running clock based on another clock source. Designing such a circuit where N is a noninteger is not as difficult as you might think.

NARRATOR: Your slime loaf is 36 centiblarples long. So, to share it equally between the 4 of you, we’re going to have to divide 36 by 4. NARRATOR: Alright Fin, show us how you’d work it out. Ah, I see ...

Multiplication and division are connected. Think about the times table facts you have been learning. 3 'multiplied by' 7 makes 21. 7 'times' 3 equals 21. The inverse operation is division. 21 'shared ...