Lonesome-Eight Challenge

[pier4r]

(09-09-2018 10:31 AM)ijabbott Wrote:  So, like the Mexican layout, if you have difficulty doing the subtractions (to obtain the remainders at each step) in your head, you have to do them "out of shot" on a separate bit of paper? The English long division method does the subtractions "in shot".

Yes very likely if the divisor is large for example. In that case I need to do the multiplication on the side and also the subtraction if needed. Now I also see why people put the dividend on the right. A problem I often had is that when I have to go into decimals in theory I have no space left going from left to right (in practice I go under the quotient, as it is written on one line). If the dividend is directly on the right, it doesn't matter as one has space.