Can synthetic division be used for non-monic and/or non-linear divisors?

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Alan P.
Dec 19, 2015

Yes. It is certainly more complicated than division by a monic binomial but it can be done.

Explanation:

Hopefully the example below will demonstrate the process.
(sorry but it was too difficult to patch it together using math formatting, so here it is as a gif)

Note you should understand synthetic division with a binomial divisor before trying to follow this process.

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