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1. adding

   Addition (usually signified by the plus symbol +) is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication and division. The addition of two whole numbers results in the total amount or sum of those values combined. The example in the adjacent image shows a combination of three apples and two apples, making a total of five apples. This observation is equivalent to the mathematical expression "3 + 2 = 5" (that is, "3 plus 2 is equal to 5"). Besides counting items, addition can also be defined and executed without referring to concrete objects, using abstractions called numbers instead, such as integers, real numbers and complex numbers. Addition belongs to arithmetic, a branch of mathematics. In algebra, another area of mathematics, addition can also be performed on abstract objects such as vectors, matrices, subspaces and subgroups. Addition has several important properties. It is commutative, meaning that the order of the operands does not matter, and it is associative, meaning that when one adds more than two numbers, the order in which addition is performed does not matter (see Summation). Repeated addition of 1 is the same as counting (see Successor function). Addition of 0 does not change a number. Addition also obeys predictable rules concerning related operations such as subtraction and multiplication. Performing addition is one of the simplest numerical tasks to do. Addition of very small numbers is accessible to toddlers; the most basic task, 1 + 1, can be performed by infants as young as five months, and even some members of other animal species. In primary education, students are taught to add numbers in the decimal system, starting with single digits and progressively tackling more difficult problems. Mechanical aids range from the ancient abacus to the modern computer, where research on the most efficient implementations of addition continues to this day.

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1. Adding

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   Rank popularity for the word 'adding' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3168

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   Rank popularity for the word 'adding' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3428

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of adding in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of adding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of adding in a Sentence

1. Ian Nakamoto:

   People don't quite know what to expect. The consensus is that OPEC will have a bit of a production cut but not a lot - not enough to make the price go up, we're obviously guarded about adding new money to the energy sector, and we'll have to wait another day or so to see what happens to prices.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

3. Robert J. Collier:

   The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building.

4. Naamit Kurshan Gerber:

   So we’ve had evidence before this paper that in women over 70, adding radiation lowers the risk of local recurrence, but it doesn’t change survival. And this study is really adding to the weight of that evidence, but it’s also, of course, lowering the age from 70 to 65, the role of radiation in these women is really reducing this risk of local recurrence, which it does, but there’s really no effect on overall survival.

5. Henri Frdric Amiel:

   Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

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