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The operating of shifting the leading digits of an addition into the next column to the left when the sum of that column exceeds a single digit (i.e., 9 in base 10).


See also

Addend, Addition, Borrow

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Carry." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Carry.html

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