S. This is lyke the order of diuision by the penne.
M. Truth you say, and nowe must I set ye quotient of this worke in the thyrde lyne, for that is the lyne of vnities in respecte to the diuisor in this worke. Then I seke howe often the diuisor maye be founde in the diuident, and that I fynde 3 tymes, then set I 3 in the thyrde lyne for the quotient, and take awaye that 60000 from the diuident, and farther I do set the diuisor one line lower, as yow se here.
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129 b. *And then seke I how often the diuisor wyll be taken from the nomber agaynste it, whiche wyll be 4 tymes and 1 remaynynge.
S. But what yf it chaunce that when the diuisor is so remoued, it can not be ones taken out of the diuident agaynste it?
M. Then must the diuisor be set in an other line lower.
S. So was it in diuision by the penne, and therfore was there a cypher set in the quotient: but howe shall that be noted here?
M. Here nedeth no token, for the lynes do represente the places: onely loke that you set your quotient in that place which standeth for vnities in respecte of the diuisor: but now to returne to the example, I fynde the diuisor 4 tymes in the diuidente, and 1 remaynynge, for 4 tymes 2 make 8, which I take from 9, and there [resteth] 1, as this figure sheweth:
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and in the myddle space for the quotient I set 4 in the seconde lyne, whiche is in this worke the place of vnities.* 130 a. Then remoue I ye diuisor to the next lower line, and seke how often I may haue it in the dyuident, which I may do here 8 tymes iust, and nothynge remayne, as in this fourme,