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It should be noted that most of the task's preamble is actually referring to integers (<u>not</u> numbers) expressed in base ten, but particularly, the 4th paragraph. Also, nothing was mentioned or inferred about signed integers (allowed or not?, or just ignored?).
>> Yes, the title of the task is Integer long division. I did not consider signed integers, thanks for pointing it out. Simply consider positive unsigned integers.
In the "note" (2nd sentence, 4th paragraph), I was rather uncertain in this period of time as to the meaning of the word '''period''' (<big>... ''will always produce a period''. </big>
Did you mean in the context of a <code>period</code> (a group of repeated decimal digits), or a '''decimal point''', (also known as) a <code>period</code>.
>> A language ambiguity. Here I mean a repeating sequence of digits.
Furthermore, most of the 4th paragraph isn't true because ''... the division of any two numbers ...'' is incorrect, it probably should say ''... the division of any two integers ...''.
'''Numbers''' could produce vulgar (or improper) (decimal) fractions. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:28, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
>> My bad. I meant to say integers, thanks for spotting it.
Also, not all computer programming languages produce a decimal point when doing (perfect/complete) division of two integers.
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