English: Division. Of the two kinds of division, although the idea of partition is perhaps the more elementary, the process of measuring is the easier to perform, since it is equivalent to a series of subtractions.
(Illustration from Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, 1911, article Arithmetic)
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