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#1 2007-11-06 06:43:24
- EPhillips1989
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long divison
hey can anyone help me divide
x^3 by x^2+4x+5
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#2 2007-11-06 07:30:52
- JaneFairfax
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Re: long divison
Sorry, Im not totally sure of the rules of polynomial long division myself. I always divide polynomials by whatever common-sense method I can think of. 
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#3 2007-11-06 08:28:17
- Ricky
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Re: long divison
This link goes over how to do polynomial division. It is basically the same as normal long division, only instead of digits you have coefficients.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#4 2007-11-06 09:07:32
- mikau
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Re: long divison
Polynomial division is fun!
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
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