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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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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
> > <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/.=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).

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