Re: Pearls Before Swine: Banned Books

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:34:44 +0000, jerry.friedman99@gmail.com
(jerryfriedman) wrote:

The Horny Goat wrote:
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:21:11 -0800, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

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When I was taking 400-level classes in the 80s, which were mostly
about /real/ Algebra and Analysis, one of these classes involved doing
/long division with functions/.=20
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You think I am kidding. I wish I were. Although it isn't that bad once
one gets the hang of it.

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REALLY??! I was doing this in grade 11 algebra back in 1972.

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Are you talking about long division with polynomials, which I too did in
11th grade (I was a year ahead), or long division with some more general
class of functions, which I know nothing about?

I was talking, to the best of my recollection, about long division
with polynomials. jerry.friedman99@gmail.com (jerryfriedman) may or
may not have been, but I'm not doubting his experience. Educational
systems (if "systems" is the word) differ, after all.

We also did synthetic division in 11th grade.  That's short long division
with polynomials.

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