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I've got a question on algebraic long division. How come we only pay attention to the term with the highest degree? It can't be because of the size of the number since we could potentially have something like:
x^3 + 100x^2 + 5 where x = 2.
Anyone care to explain?

>> No.4578582

Nice pandas, OP. Are they related to your post?

>> No.4578584

>>4578582
No, don't discuss the pandas.

>> No.4578590

I believe those pandas may, in fact, be koalas.

Discuss.

>> No.4578591

what do you mean by "pay attention to"? in algebraic division we go through all the terms

>> No.4578592

>>4578590
>>>/pol/

>> No.4578593
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>>4578590
No god dammit can someone answer my question? The pandas are not koalas. This is a koala.

>> No.4578594

>>4578590
Pandas and koalas are social constructs.

>> No.4578599

>>4578593
That is not a koala. That, together with pandas, is a marsupial. Koalas are not marsupials.

Learn 2 biology.

>> No.4578604
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>>4578593
this is a koala

>> No.4578607

>>4578604
that's one sexy koala

>> No.4578610
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>>4578604
Dude, Australia is on the southern hemisphere. You forgot to rotate the picture.

>> No.4578612

>>4578610
Man, you totally turned that frown upside down.

>> No.4578615

<span class="math">\frac{3}{4}[/spoiler]

>> No.4578622
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4578622

OP here. Still waiting for an explanation.

>> No.4578626

>>4578622
Because that's how shit works. Why do you even ask?

>> No.4578627

>>4578604
That is clearly a drop bear.

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>>4578622
Please stop derailing the thread. We're talking about marsupials.

>> No.4578633

Because we're trying to eliminate the polynomial one term at a time, starting from the top. We don't ignore the lower terms; we just don't worry about them until after we eliminate the higher term.

>> No.4578637

>>4578627
Agreed. I can tell by the foliage in that coolibah tree.

>> No.4578646
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4578646

these faggots are tacking all the moneis away from wetland conservation where they could save 1000s of species for every furfag pandas that lays about watching porn.

Its like the white man all over again.

fuck you op. fuck you.

>> No.4578654

>>4578646
>Those fucking Koalas

>> No.4578767

because this is the process that generally allows the least computations.
If you try to eliminate the lowest degree terms first, then other terms, you might add other lower degree terms in the process and I don't even know if you could get rid of them all.
Let me give you an example:
X²+X+2 divided by X+1
try to get rid of 2 first.
this leaves me with:
X²+X+2= 2(X+1) +(X²-X)

now I want to get rid of X²
so I add X(X+1)
X²+X+2=(X+2)(X+1)-2X

Now I want to get rid of -2X, so I add -2 "X+1"
X²+X+2=X(X+1)+2
Now I want to get rid of the 2
Am I caught in a loop?
Probably, because I don't know when to stop.
However, had I used the classical method, I would've been able to do the long division and I would've known when to stop.