# Other kind long division help

I need to make equations like this with 'check'. Here is my example with strange spacing. The long division is from PageMaker. I am making excel tables then I copy them in Pagemaker but its very hard to do.

• Can you please provide code of what you've tried so far? – Skillmon likes topanswers.xyz Nov 15 '18 at 13:46
• The long division is from PageMaker. I am making excel tables then I copy them in Pagemaker but its very hard to do. – Simeon Simeonov Nov 15 '18 at 14:17
• So you didn't create those with TeX? Please note that this page is not a do-it-for-me service. Questions about more specific things tend to get answered quicker and better. There are packages tackling that. One example could be longdivision, with it you can do \longdivision{402}{3}, but I personally dislike the output of that package. Another example would be polynom which adds \longdiv. – Skillmon likes topanswers.xyz Nov 15 '18 at 15:23
• I have used xlop, longdiv, but it's just other kind of long division. – Simeon Simeonov Nov 15 '18 at 15:28
• [link] (imgur.com/a/oMBKXnQ) I want it like that, those packages does offer different things. – Simeon Simeonov Nov 15 '18 at 15:31

Here is a way, if you prefer to retain column gaps:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[TABcline]{tabstackengine}
\TABstackMath
\renewcommand\stackalignment{l}
\newcommand\lminus{\llap{$-$}}
{\catcode-=\active
\gdef -{\lminus}}
\newcommand\minusactive{\phantom{-}\catcode-=\active}
\setstacktabbedgap{3pt}
\begin{document}
$\minusactive \tabbedShortunderstack[r]{ &3&7&0&5&:5=741\\ -&3&5& &&\\ \TABcline{2,3} & &2&0&&\\ &-&2&0&&\\ \TABcline{3,4} & & & &5&\\ & & &-&5&\\ \TABcline{5} & & & &0& }$
\end{document}


Naturally, the method works inside a tabular:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[TABcline]{tabstackengine}
\TABstackMath
\renewcommand\stackalignment{l}
\newcommand\lminus{\llap{$-$}}
{\catcode-=\active
\gdef -{\lminus}}
\newcommand\minusactive{\phantom{-}\catcode-=\active}
\setstacktabbedgap{3pt}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ll@{\hspace{10ex}}c}
1)&
$\minusactive \tabbedShortunderstack[r]{ &3&7&0&5&:5=741\\ -&3&5& &&\\ \TABcline{2,3} & &2&0&&\\ &-&2&0&&\\ \TABcline{3,4} & & & &5&\\ & & &-&5&\\ \TABcline{5} & & & &0& }$
&
$741\cdot5 = 3705$\\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}


• That was fast. There seem, though, to be two columns of info. – Saphar Koshet Nov 15 '18 at 15:57
• @SapharKoshet Not sure what you mean. I just was demonstrating how to build the division. There are various ways (using tabular for example) to array them in rows by columns format. – Steven B. Segletes Nov 15 '18 at 16:02
• And, that you've done, and quickly. In the example given, there's the stack segment (on the left), and what appears to be additional answer-checking in a "right column." Didn't know whether you wanted also to include that or not. – Saphar Koshet Nov 15 '18 at 16:06
• @SapharKoshet Please see revision to see how it can be done. – Steven B. Segletes Nov 15 '18 at 16:07
• Yes. That's the "right column" info. It's possible the whole of the code you provided wasn't absorbed by the web page when the note came in. – Saphar Koshet Nov 15 '18 at 16:09