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The various arithmetic functions which the computer must accomplish have to be resolved into simple operations that the physical computer elements can perform. It will be seen that it is possible to reduce the arithmetic which the computer does to a few basic operations. The most important and the most widely used of these operations is the combination of two sets of information bits to form either the sum or the difference of the numbers. Using the logical characteristics which were introduced in the preceding chapter, the use of basic elements to perform the combining function will be analyzed.
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Hintze, G. (1966). Arithmetic Operations of the Machine. In: Fundamentals of Digital Machine Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-92912-0_4
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