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Long division   /lɔŋ dɪvˈɪʒən/   Listen
Long division

noun
1.
The operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail.





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"Long division" Quotes from Famous Books



... be good at long division, and they do not take any pains to learn subtraction thoroughly. Or they expect to be good in English, and will not study grammar. They are like the boy ...
— Fifty-Two Story Talks To Boys And Girls • Howard J. Chidley
... the term he was able to multiply with considerable accuracy and to divide in short division. Long division he did not attempt, but he rapidly learned to cast interest at six per cent. He had had a way of arriving at that with beans, before he came to school; and no one had ever succeeded in cheating him. He knew about interest money, he said, ...
— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens
... hand kindly on the curly head of one of her pupils. It was recess time, but the little girl had not gone to frolic away the ten minutes, she had not even left her seat, but sat absorbed in a seemingly vain attempt to make herself mistress of an example in long division. ...
— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various


Words linked to "Long division" :   division


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