Talk:Synthetic division

Never mind. Captain Pedant (talk) 10:09, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Reversion from hyphens to minus signs
I'm reverting this edit. The edit summary suggests it is because negatives should be denoted with, but I'm not so sure that's the case. denotes a hyphen, and  inside math is both subtraction and negation. I understand that some calculators and such may provide separate symbols for each, but I believe the most common convention in LaTeX is to use  for both, and whatever the case,   is, as I said before, a hyphen (well, in Unicode, a hyphen-minus, but LaTeX will interpret it as a hyphen), not a minus or negation symbol, whatever that would be.

If nothing else, this makes the article consistent. ( is used in some places and   in others.) —Icktoofay (talk) 05:31, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Incomplete compact expanded synthetic division?
Just wondering here, shouldn't there be a /i on the denominator side (final row, to the immediate left of the leftmost vertical line) for the example on compact expanded synthetic division for solving non-monic divisors? Also, perhaps a word or two on how to handle when the denominator is greater than the numerator in the various implementations of synthetic division (the answer becomes a reciprocal), and how to properly handle a remainder from such a synthetic division result, should one exist? --Wikispherion (talk) 00:21, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


 * This is somewhat a late response; but you may wish to do that if it helps you. I felt I didn't need it when I provided the original instructions to the compact expanded synthetic division. However, feel free to edit in `/i`. -- Dashed (talk) 22:31, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Redundancy
Is there a difference between Ruffini's rule and synthetic division? —Tamfang (talk) 16:47, 6 August 2020 (UTC)


 * https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RuffinisRule.html says:
 * Note that Ruffini's rule is a special case of the more generalized notion of synthetic division in which the divisor polynomial is a monic linear polynomial. Confusingly, Ruffini's rule is sometimes referred to as synthetic division
 * AltoStev ( talk ) 16:22, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

GIF images
May I suggest creating a GIF image for the general division (not just the linear / Ruffini case)?