CTAN update: longdivision
Updated to include more flexible output, including partial completion of a problem, "German" style long division, a nicer radical symbol if tikz is loaded, and various notations for repeating decimals.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/longdivision More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/longdivision
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
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longdivision – Typesets long division
This package executes the long division algorithm and typesets the solutions. The dividend must be a positive decimal number and the divisor must be a positive integer. Repeating decimals is handled correctly, putting a bar over the repeated part of the decimal. Dividends up to 20 digits long are handled gracefully (though the typeset result will take up about a page), and dividends between 20 and 60 digits long slightly less gracefully.
The package defines two macros, \longdivision and \intlongdivision. Each takes two arguments, a dividend and a divisor. \longdivision keeps dividing until the remainder is zero, or it encounters a repeated remainder. \intlongdivision stops when the dividend stops (though the dividend doesn’t have to be an integer).
This package depends on the xparse package from the l3packages bundle.
| Package | longdivision |
| Version | 1.2.2 2023-10-21 |
| Maintainer | Hood Chatham |