Translation for "formas elaboradas" to english

Formas elaboradas

• elaborate forms

Translation examples

elaborate forms

El escritorio estaba cubierto de catálogos de ferreterías y pedazos de papel en los cuales había hecho cálculos que siempre arrojaban resultados diferentes, porque era un mal matemático: para él, la multiplicación era una forma elaborada de la suma y una serie de sustracciones reemplazaba una larga división.
His desk was littered with hardware catalogues and scraps of paper on which he had made elaborate calculations that always came out differently, for he was a bad mathematician—multiplication with him was an elaborate form of addition and a series of subtractions would take the place of long division.