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You are correct. You will sometimes see this process written slightly differently, with successive quotients written beneath their predecessors rather than above, thus,
8)391
8)48
, r = 7
8)6
, r = 0
0
, r = 6
It makes no difference which form you use, of course. Since the remainders are read from the top down in the first, rather than from the bottom up as in this second form, the first form seems less likely to induce error in recording the result.
Well, practice makes perfect. Which of the following sets of conversions contains an error?
Answer :
5810 =
728
82510 =
1, 4718
35410 =
5428⎫⎪⎬⎪⎭ This set contains a mistake.
