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by zwirbl 1406 days ago
After looking it up on Wikipedia and seeing the various notations used (most of which are awful IMO) I get the hate on long division, though I never felt anything like that. It may be because it is familiar to me, but the notation I learned in school in Austria feels superior or at least less irritating. I guess German schools use the same. Why the heck write the divisor first?