General ⇒ Division and Latex

[coachbennett1981]

I have a question that seems pretty basic. If I wanted to divide the following expression, is there a way that I can show each step easily.

1852/2. I want to show each step (Long division) I know there is a package for polynomial long division.

can anybody help?

Nick

[torbjorn t.]

There is also a package called longdiv for integer long division:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/longdiv.html

[coachbennett1981]

How do you load the tex package so that I can run long div problems? I am not sure how to do that.

Nick

[gmedina]

Hi Nick,

you have, at least, two options:

1) Save the file longdiv.tex in the same directory that contains your .tex file and then include longdiv.tex by using

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\input{longdiv}

2) Copy-paste the code from longdiv.tex directly to the preamble of your .tex document.

[alexsanderam]

Hello, I'm new user of Latex and had the same questions about how to represent the division of "long division", but this was very helpful post. However, I am Brazilian and here so long to represent the division is somewhat different, see Wikipedia:

In Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia, the European notation (see below) is used, except that the quotient is not separated by a vertical line, as shown below:

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    127|4    
   -12  31,75
     07
    - 4
      30
     -28
       20
      -20
        0

So I wonder if you can do this way too. Thank you.