I'm trying to mentally summarize the names of the operands for basic operations. I've got this so far: Addition: Augend + Addend = Sum. Subtraction: Minuend - Subtrahend = Difference. Multiplicati...

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Mar 8, 2024 · Why is a right bit arithmetic where you "carry the MSB" work with the intended semantics (divide by $2^k$ or multiply by $2^k$) for both positive and negative representations of numbers? …

Yonatan: Most of the disagreement anyway is how to handle the case when the digit after the rounding digit is a 5; for the other digits, all seem to be in agreement. I guess the rules are application-dependent!

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Jan 21, 2025 · There's more to say about three-term arithmetic progressions of squares, but first a review of Pythagorean triples, which turn out to be closely related to, but better studied than, three …

Jan 7, 2015 · The other interesting thing here is that 1,2,3, etc. appear in order in the list. And you have 2,3,4, etc. terms on the left, 1,2,3, etc. terms on the right. This should let you determine a formula like …

Aug 1, 2017 · I am reading about Arithmetic mean and Harmonic mean. From wikipedia I got this comparision about them: In certain situations, especially many situations involving rates and ratios, …

Jul 29, 2021 · Multiplication can be thought of as repeated addition. For instance, we have $3\\times 2=6$ which is equivalently expressed as $3\\times (1+1)=3+3=6$ Notice that in this definition of …

Aug 24, 2022 · In the Wikipedia article for (the first-order theory of) Presburger arithmetic, it is stated (among other properties) that Presburger arithmetic is consistent. What meta-theory does he rely on …