Four hundred seventy two divided by seven.
OK, well first, “How many times does the divider number go into the divided number?” And you start with the first digit, the biggest digit, of the divided number (which has a name… divisor, maybe? not really important). OK, so, “How many times does five go into four?” Well, none. So, “Well, how could I change four so that five could go into it?” Well, you could make it forty, by adding a zero to it, right? So do that, but, so, you have to… subtract ten or–
Wait.
No, I’m thinking of multiplication or something somehow. Wait.
OK, so go back to the beginning. “How many times does seven go into four hundred seventy three?” So, you do your multiplication tables for seven, and go until you get close. Heh, I remember learning those.
Elementary school. Heh. Emily Funk! Stephen Shepherd! Courtney Shoup. Ooo! And Laura… what was Laura’s last name? It was alliterative. Lavin? Laderberg? Man, I forget.
So multiplication tables for seven! Right. Or, well, that would actually take a while, “If I do multiplication tables, but then times them by ten…” So you go, like, seventy, one hundred forty, two hundred twenty, two hundred eighty, (Dividor? No.) three hundred ten, three hundred eighty, four hundred fifty, five hundred eighty, six hundred ten, seven hundred thirty, eight hundred fifty, and so on. And you look at those, and think, “Which is closest to, but less than four hundred seventy two?”
Wait.
Seven hundred should’ve been in there somewhere. So, wait. Let’s do that again, without tens. Seven, fourteen, twenty one, twenty eight, thirty five, forty two, forty nine. OK, forty two. So times ten, forty two, or four hundred twenty. And that’s seven times… one, two, three, four, five, six. Six. So seven times sixty. And it was Marcy Laderberg. And she was in high school. And it was Laura Linney! Ha! (Dividant? No.)
OK!
So, we have sixty. But that’s not exact. So we think, “Well, what’s four hundred seventy two minus sixty?” Well, that’s easy, four hundred twelve. So. Then.
Wait, no.
We don’t think that. What we DO think is….
…
What do we think, what do we think…. four hundred seventy two, six, sixty, seven times six, forty two, forty two, four twenty–
Right! We think, “What is four hundred seventy two minus four hundred twenty?” Right, right. Ha! OK. Well, that’s not too hard either, four hundred seventy two minus four hundred twenty is… fours cancel, zero, two minus zero is two, seven minus two, five, zero five two, fifty two. Four hundred seventy two minus four hundred twenty is fifty two. Laura Linney was really pretty as I remember. Pretty and blonde.
OK.
So. We have to remember that sixty for later. But now… we have to then redivide this sixty, no, I mean, fifty two, by seven, too. Seventy two. Seven, no, wait. (Divisor! It’s called the divisor. One of them is. The bigger one. Or, that doesn’t matter actually, but the…. Well. One of them. What’s the other one? Do I have Laura’s number?) So, OK, now, fifty two, seven, fifty six, forty nine, seven. Seven times seven is closest, at forty nine. So, seven. But then we have three left over. So, we… add… three… to… no! No, we add seven to sixty. Sixty seven. And we save that. But then… that three. Hmm. You could do the adding a zero thing. Seven into thirty, twenty one, twenty eight, thirty five, twenty eight, is four. Four. (Divanti…dor? No.) Twenty eight from… thirty. Two. Four gets added, or… no. And now, this two is… we could add… make it twenty, or, but what happens to the four? Lonnergan. Laura Lonnergan? Kenneth Lonnergan. “You Can Count On Me”. God damn it, Laura Linney was in “You Can Count on Me”. Laura Linney is an famous actress. And so is Linda Lavin.
I didn’t know Laura Linney in elementary school. And she is pretty and blonde.
(sigh)
Oh! Hey, I remember sometimes you could just say, “A remainder of three.” Like that. Let’s say now is one of those times. And three’s not so much to have left over. So I guess we have a remainder of three.
And four.
And then two.
That’s just stupid.
We’ll just say, sixty (what was it? four twenty, fifty two, forty nine, seven) seven. Point three. Point three four two. (Dividend. The other one is the dividend. The divisor and the dividend. Right.) Point three four two. Eh… but I don’t know that those– Oh! How about: sixty seven… dot dot dot.
Sixty seven dot dot dot.
472 / 7 = 67…
Laroche.
Pretty, blonde Laura Laroche. (sigh) Maybe she’s doing her taxes today, too.