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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:34:44 +0000, jerry.friedman99@gmail.com
(jerryfriedman) wrote:

>The Horny Goat wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:21:11 -0800, Paul S Person
>> <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> 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/.=3D20
>>>
>>>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?

I was talking, to the best of my recollection, about long division
with polynomials. jerry.friedman99@gmail.com (jerryfriedman) may or
may not have been, but I'm not doubting his experience. Educational
systems (if "systems" is the word) differ, after all.

>We also did synthetic division in 11th grade.  That's short long =
division
>with polynomials.
--=20
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