Divide Numbers By Connecting The Dots

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I'm so happy this isn't how I was taught to divide.

[rcksnxc]

This is exactly like long division, except each digit is drawn into dots.
Connecting dots can be seen as subtracting the dividend by the divisor.
Which also explains why this works for polynomial division as well.

[muchomax]

Next lesson: How to divide numbers using sweet potatoes.

[DanzoSrife]

Which way do you connect the dots? Why are u going north vertically in some and south vertically in others? Left or right? You skip a ton of info . Then finally u have a Y shape. Why didn't u start with a Y shape? This is very confusing.
What do you mean there's no figures started in the column? What is a figure? I can see a horizontal line, so why isn't that a figure? It looks exactly like the one on the left, i see no difference

[SleepMastR]

Try dividing 1001 by 7 this way. >:)

[evgenysavelev]

Man, you are a master of deception. Selling the good old division algorithm under the guise of dots is brilliant.

For the rest of you, this is the the same division algorithm that you learn in school. Just instead of digits you use dots. Instead of subtracting you connect the dots.

[matlee]

This method is efficient only if the digits in the divisor are all small numbers. Let's consider 392 / 98 as an example, where the divisor digits are large enough. In this case we should see the 3 dots in the first line as 30 dots in the second line and do the similar thing to the second and the third lines, and this process is quite complicated.

[afloatgamer]

Never thought I would say this
School taught me better then that

[MAHIRLABEEB]

This method is very good. I dont know why a bunch of idiots are pissed off in the comment section. It worked, a good tool to have in an arsenal. Some people just looked in for a minute and tried not to understand anything.

[monaessa]

This is really coolest method I have seen I really like that method it is better than any division method this is the greatest and simplest method than other

[PocketBearCal]

I was a little confused at first but after the second time I got it and it's made everything so much easier.

[quabledistocficklepo]

I think I will like this method WHEN I learn to use it. Right now, I can't get past your explanation of of how the answer is calculated, so I'll have to look elsewhere for clearer instructions. Thanks for getting me interested, though. Hey, there were NO other explanations, so I had to come back here. Finally, on about the tenth view, I understood how you counted the dots. Funny, that I had no such problem with your other method. Maybe that's why I liked it more.

[hangukhiphop]

This only seems to work if all of the digits in the divisor are less than or equal to each of the digits in the dividend.

[rashmiverma]

What a method ! Thank you for sharing with us such an interesting trick

[thewaytruthandlife]

2:29 why do you stop there ??? and giving the answer 1102 ? should you not proceed for the other dots ??

[xandermichels]

i see there seems to be a problem of knowing which dots to connect

[Xyrenoxx]

Looked at comments and _everybody’s been stumped by this for 5 years-_

It’s 2019 I don’t get it, don’t think anyone else will

[emolovesblack]

This is beautiful thank you so much. It's like abstract algebra.

[garjian]

But this means that it's not possible for a divided number to have a digit higher than any of it's original digits.

100 / 25 is 4, but 4 shapes can't be created from the single dot that 100 draws.

[djyotta]

I don't know why this isn't taught in school. It's actually useful.