Standard way to divide numbers of base other than 10. I have some homework where I am supposed to divide two numbers that are base 5 or 3.
And I did it. I basically converted the numbers to decimal, divided, and then convert the result to the original base.
That seems to work. But also seems a bit silly when I look at it. The reason I did such conversions is because I am not very sure of the fastest, simplest way to actually do such divisions. So, what do you do?

You can also just operate in base 5 or 3.  The division algorithm you learned doesn't depend upon the base.  You just need to multiply and subtract in the base of interest.  Base 5:  13 into 233: first digit is a 1, leaving 103.  Next is 3, and 3*13=44 leaving 4, so 233/13=13 remainder 4.
