@cjwatson and since you've gotta basically do the long division anyway to get the integer part, why would you not carry on doing it to get a decimal part? I have polled a couple of Old People (to whom I happen to be related) and they said yeah, doing long division at school, you'd either report the answer as a decimal, or as 8 remainder 62 or whatever. Nobody seems to have even been taught a procedure which gives you an answer in the form 8 62/1317ths, or whatever. (I can see how to do it!)
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