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long division

A process of division in arithmetic, usually used when the divisor is a large number, in which each step of the division is written out.

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long division - the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail

division - an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

And between the mathematical mind of Michael, who counted to five, and the mind of the ancient black at Tulagi, who counted sticks of tobacco in units of five, was a distance shorter than that between Michael and Dag Daughtry who could do multiplication and long division.

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One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes, raised in abstraction to the window, caught sight of a figure just passing: I recognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline; and when, two minutes after, all the school, teachers included, rose en masse, it was not necessary for me to look up in order to ascertain whose entrance they thus greeted.

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