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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A process of division in arithmetic, usually used when the divisor is a large number, in which each step of the division is written out.
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- noun mathematics A procedure for dividing
multidigit numbers , breaking down the division into a series of easiersteps .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail
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