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You need to be able to perform long division to take quotients in algebraic structures, e.g. polynomials. Yes, Wolfram Alpha can probably do it, but not always
by scatters 4y ago
You need to be able to perform long division to take quotients in algebraic structures, e.g. polynomials. Yes, Wolfram Alpha can probably do it, but not always.
- foota 4y agoshudders with memories of abstract algebra
- omnicognate 4y agoIt's easier with polynomials than with numbers, though.
- sdenton4 4y agoBut numbers are polynomials! Both in the trivial sense, and the 361 = 3x10^2 + 6x10 + 1 sense
- ogogmad 4y agoYou don't need to understand long division to be able to do that. Long division is over the integers. It's got a weird notation, and I never learnt it. There isn't any reason for 99.9% of mathematicians - even in abstract algebra - to know long division.