kvotientsiffer
Kvotientsiffer, or quotient digit, is the digit that appears at a given position in the base-b representation of a division’s result. In a division of two integers expressed in a positional numeral system, the quotient is obtained step by step, and each step yields one kvotientsiffer. In base-10 arithmetic, the quotient is written as q_k q_{k-1} ... q_0, and each q_i is a kvotientsiffer. The full quotient is reconstructed as Q = sum q_i b^i, where b is the base (10 in decimal).
In manual long division and in many division algorithms used in computing, the divisor is compared with
Example: 248 ÷ 8. Looking at the first partial dividend, 24, eight fits into 24 three times,
Kvotientsiffer are fundamental in both manual calculation and digital division, serving as the building blocks of