Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Banned Books Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:44:17 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.2B8409120559606530F37938F@news.giganews.com> <893a27ba579b2475edd178f4de8f1379@www.novabbs.com> X-Trace: individual.net TwnJTbA4bJcqVsvxC6NgBQ5AwIX+LA27T58Dfq2XpLpZXeb803 X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:3GQCKhwvMO2XTJs8MZDGpMffxBw= sha256:xY5ZC8l3MPRQM0RtswVsagvyI10FvJFbKi3ta493mRI= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 2386 In article <893a27ba579b2475edd178f4de8f1379@www.novabbs.com>, jerry.friedman99@gmail.com (jerryfriedman) wrote: > The Horny Goat wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:21:11 -0800, Paul S Person > > wrote: > > >>When I was taking 400-level classes in the 80s, which were mostly > >>about /real/ Algebra and Analysis, one of these classes involved doing > >>/long division with functions/.=20 > >> > >>You think I am kidding. I wish I were. Although it isn't that bad once > >>one gets the hang of it. > > > REALLY??! I was doing this in grade 11 algebra back in 1972. > > Are you talking about long division with polynomials, which I too did in > 11th grade (I was a year ahead), or long division with some more general > class of functions, which I know nothing about? > > We also did synthetic division in 11th grade. That's short long division > with polynomials. While the example of long division with polynomials looked familiar, I don't remember doing it in high school. I do remember being taught how to extract a square root (which I think is an application of synthetic division). -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. —----------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com