long division
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2.5
- noun
- /lɔŋ dɪˈvɪʒən/
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división larga
- "She wrote a problem in long division on a sheet of paper and handed it to him.
Trust me I can do long division.
- Trust me I can do long division.
- So, so, well, if you can beat me, I'm not going to make you do the the other long division.
Examples
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I need to divide them and I'm going to use long division now.
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Seventy percent of the students who took the exam set up the correct long division and performed it correctly.
Blog text (27) -
I never could do long division.
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- Did you ever learn long division?
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So what you do is just use long division, find out your quotient.
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I've always been terrible at long division, too, she thought.
Fiction book (1995) -
I spoke slowly, the way Mrs. Richards did when she taught long division.
Fiction book (1999) -
Help your children gain a solid grounding in math by teaching them the traditional methods, such as long division, vertical multiplication, and the number line.
Blog text (2) -
She's had some trouble with mathematics—long division, fractions, but then so did I.
Fiction book (1995) -
I struggled to learn long division in the fourth grade.
Antonyms
How Detailed
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositional: 'long' modifies 'division' to indicate a division that is extended or carried out in detail, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a lengthier, stepwise method. This is a transparent, non‑idiomatic technical label (cross‑linguistically similar patterns exist), not a metaphorical or arbitrary meaning.
Etymology
Long division comes from school math: when you write out the whole process for division it takes many lines and looks long on the page. That's why long division means the written, 'step-by-step' way to divide numbers.