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HAVING been working on similar lines for some years, I was very much interested in the late Mr. Dodgson's letter on abridged division in NATURE of January 20, and I should like to offer a few observations and to give a variation of the method which appears much simpler. It will be admitted that Mr. Dodgson's plan is of limited application, and rather complicated for general use. There is nothing to hinder the method given below from being universally used, though it may not in all cases be the shortest. It also has the merit, I think, of directness and uniformity.
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CHRISTIE, R. Abridged Long Division. Nature 57, 390–391 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057390a0
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