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Also known as adding, collecting, summing, summation, plus
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Addition is the mathematical operation of combining two or more numbers or quantities to find their total. It matters because it's one of the most fundamental tools we use in everyday life, from counting objects to managing money and solving practical problems.
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- Instance of
- mathematical operation
- Subclass of
- binary operation
- Has part
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- Addition
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- plus sign
- opposite of
- subtraction
- has characteristic
- associativity
- identity element
- zero
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- studied by
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