{
 "source": {
  "title": "Long division (Wikipedia), sections Method and Notation in non-English-speaking countries",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_division",
  "revision": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long_division&oldid=1380063092",
  "revisionTime": "2026-10-13T15:20:18Z",
  "fetched": "2026-10-20",
  "licence": "Quotations from Wikipedia text, CC BY-SA 4.0.",
  "note": "Fetched by public GET of the article's wikitext (action=raw) while this page was built. The article marks its notation section as unreferenced, so each school system's own textbooks are the final word; the country lists below are the article's. Wiki markup (links, and the angle brackets around the symbols ) and |) is removed from the quotes; the words are unchanged."
 },
 "layouts": [
  {
   "id": "bracket",
   "name": "Bracket",
   "short": "US, UK, India, China, Japan, Korea",
   "countries": ["English-speaking countries", "India", "China", "Japan", "Korea", "Mexico (only the remainders are written)"],
   "quote": "The divisor is separated from the dividend by a right parenthesis ) or vertical bar |; the dividend is separated from the quotient by a vinculum (i.e., an overbar). The combination of these two symbols is sometimes known as a long division symbol, division bracket, or even a bus stop.",
   "quote2": "China, Japan, Korea use the same notation as English-speaking nations including India.",
   "sep": "."
  },
  {
   "id": "inline",
   "name": "Inline : =",
   "short": "Germany, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Poland",
   "countries": ["Austria", "Germany", "Switzerland", "Denmark", "Norway", "Bulgaria", "North Macedonia", "Poland", "Croatia", "Slovenia", "Hungary", "Czech Republic", "Slovakia", "Vietnam", "Serbia", "Finland (some textbooks since the early 2000s)", "Latin America except Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay and Brazil (written with ÷ instead of :)"],
   "quote": "In Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the notational form of a normal equation is used. <dividend> : <divisor> = <quotient>, with the colon \":\" denoting a binary infix symbol for the division operator (analogous to \"/\" or \"÷\"). In these regions the decimal separator is written as a comma.",
   "quote2": "The same notation is adopted in Denmark, Norway, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Vietnam and in Serbia.",
   "sep": ","
  },
  {
   "id": "right",
   "name": "Divisor right",
   "short": "France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Colombia",
   "countries": ["Spain", "Italy", "France", "Portugal", "Lithuania", "Romania", "Turkey", "Greece", "Belgium", "Belarus", "Ukraine", "Russia", "Iran", "Vietnam", "Mongolia", "Cyprus", "Brazil", "Bolivia", "Paraguay", "Venezuela", "Colombia", "Peru", "French-speaking Canada", "Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina (only the remainders are written)"],
   "quote": "In Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Lithuania, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, the divisor is to the right of the dividend, and separated by a vertical bar. The division also occurs in the column, but the quotient (result) is written below the divider, and separated by the horizontal line. The same method is used in Iran, Vietnam, and Mongolia.",
   "quote2": "In Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, French-speaking Canada, Colombia, and Peru, the European notation (see below) is used, except that the quotient is not separated by a vertical line.",
   "sep": ","
  }
 ]
}