If there are not enough dots in a minuend position, a bar is replaced by five dots.
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Subtraction finds the difference between two numbers, the minuend minus the subtrahend.
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However, the 10 is not taken by reducing the minuend, rather one augments the subtrahend.
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The operator can either use the inner wheels of complements or dial the complement of the minuend directly.
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First the complement of the minuend is entered.
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Enter the 9's complement of the minuend.
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The minuend is 704, the subtrahend is 512.
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At the elementary level, the value of the minuend is larger than the value of the subtrahend so that the result is a positive number.
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In other words, the 9's complement of the difference of two numbers is equal to the sum of the 9's complement of the minuend added to the subtrahend.
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The number from which the subtrahend is subtracted
Subtraction is one of the four basic arithmetic operations; it is the inverse of addition, meaning that if we start with any number and add any number and then subtract the same number we added, we return to the number we started with. Subtraction is denoted by a minus sign in infix notation.
The minuend is the first value in a subtraction problem. Usually a smaller value is subtraction from a larger value.That larger value will often be the minuend.