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Old 11-10-2006, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Qilfish View Post
Back in year six, they refused to teach us long division. What's up with that? It wasn't on the sylabus, so though we asked many a time, we didnt get taught it and then in year 7, most others did. Grah. Now I still can't do long division...
Meh, long division... I learnt it back when I was like 10 then never saw it again until this year (my last year of high school - age: 18 - and all we used it for was finding the roots of a cubic (without using a calc), and since we can use a calculator for everything it's pretty much null).

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