MathML - Long Division

<mlongdiv> tag is used to draw long divisions.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this tag −

<mlongdiv> divisor dividend result expression </mlongdiv>

Parameters

Here is the description of all the parameters of this tag -

• divisor - divisor of the long division.
• dividend - dividend of the long division.
• result - result of the long division.
• expression - mstack element or children of mstack.

Attributes

Here is the description of all the attributes of this tag -

• longdivstyle - to control the style of the long division layout. Valid values are lefttop, stackedrightright, mediumstackedrightright, shortstackedrightright, righttop, left/\right, left)(right, :right=right, stackedleftleft, stackedleftlinetop. Default is lefttop.

Example

Let's draw a simple fraction for 1/x.

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mlongdiv longdivstyle="lefttop">
   <mn> 3 </mn>
   <mn> 435.3</mn>
   <mn> 1306</mn>
   <msgroup position="2" shift="-1">
      <msgroup>
         <mn> 12</mn>
         <msline length="2"/>
      </msgroup>
      <msgroup>
         <mn> 10</mn>
         <mn> 9</mn>
         <msline length="2"/>
      </msgroup>
      <msgroup>
         <mn> 16</mn>
         <mn> 15</mn>
         <msline length="2"/>
         <mn> 1.0</mn>           
      </msgroup>   
      <msgroup position='-1'>   
         <mn> 9</mn>
         <msline length="3"/>
         <mn> 1</mn>
      </msgroup>
   </msgroup>
</mlongdiv>
</math>

Output

$3435.313061210916151.091$