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addend|ˈædɛnd| [ad. L. addendus (sc. numerus), gerundive of addere add v.: see -end.] A number which is to be added to another.
1674S. Jeake Logisticelogia (1696) 16 Place the Addends in rank and file one directly under another. [1892Smith & Hudson Arith. for Schools (new ed.) 6 The numbers to be added are called the addenda.] 1904D. E. Smith Gram. School Arith. i. 6. Numbers to be added are called addends. 1907H. S. Jones Mod. Arithm. I. ii. 4 Addition is the process of finding one number..which is equivalent to two or more... The simple numbers which are to be collected into one are often called terms, or addends. 1925D. E. Smith Hist. Math. II. ii. 90 The word ‘addend’ was frequently used to refer only to the lower of two numbers to be added... It was also used by many writers to refer to all the numbers to be added except the top one. 1947[see augend]. 1953Proc. IRE XLI. 1245/2 Addition of numbers is performed by first entering one of the numbers (the augend) in the accumulator and then giving the command to add, at the same time entering the other number (the addend). 1977Sci. Amer. Sept. 85/1 We can begin with the combination in which both the addend and the augend are 0's but the carry bit from the previous column is a 1. |