Notice how the digits of the dividend and quotient are ‘lined-up’ with this working out, just as we would always do with column addition and subtraction! Image caption, To begin the division ...

In a land where people have forgotten how to do maths, our superheroes, Multiplication Boy and Division Girl, are called upon to save confused citizens from their maths-based predicaments!

[Paul Curtis] over at Segger has an interesting series of blog posts about calculating division. This used to be a hotter topic, but nowadays many computers or computer languages have support for ...