General ⇒ Long Divsion

[Mikerada6]

What would be the best way to write the long division of two polynomials and show all the steps? An example of the long division i want to do is below:

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$\frac{x-4}{5x^2-17x-12}$

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

have a look at the polynom package, it provides commands to typeset long polynomial divisions, see its documentation and examples.

Stefan

[Mikerada6]

this looks like what i want, but i am very confused as to how to use it.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The documentation explains how to use it. If you have specific questions, especially if the documentation is not clear enough at some point, feel free to ask here.

Stefan

[Mikerada6]

I did not realize that this package was actually doing the long division for you i thought it simply formatted for you to do so. Thank you very much i love Latex, and the Latex Community. Thank you again

[fractal.generator]

Let's consider the example document (from the link given by Mr. Stefan), the first form looks like the following,

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) ............


The division sign above has a gap between the closing brace and the underscore strings.

Is there a way to make it more beautiful without gap?


Thanks in advance.


regards,

Hayashi

[NathanCPFCD]

I'm looking to use the \polylongdiv function in Latex but for an infinite series - is there any way to do this at all?

Basically I'm looking at Power series and want to show the long divison of 1/(1+x) showing up to the point where I have the answer 1-x+x^2-x^3+...

Is this at all possible through the polynom package or is there another better way of showing it?

Thanks!