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An adding machine is a mechanical or electromechanical calculator which could perform addition and subtraction.
Addition and subtraction are reverse operations.
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You may be referring to the Curta, the small, hand-cranked mechanical calculator introduced by Curt Herzstark in 1948. It can be used to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots and other operations. It was considered the most accurate calculator until the introduction of the electronic ones in the early 1970s.
addition and subtraction
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Do (multiplication/division) before you do (addition/subtraction).
Inverse Operations: Divison undoes multiplication. Addition undoes subtraction. Subtraction undoes addition. Multiplication undoes division.
It was the first calculator that could perform all four arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The first mechanical calculator is attributed to Blaise Pascal, who invented the Pascaline in 1642. This device was designed to perform basic arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction. However, earlier counting devices, such as the abacus, have been used for centuries before Pascal's invention. Therefore, while Pascal is often credited with creating the first mechanical calculator, the concept of calculation has a much older history.
Inverse means opposite. What undoes subtraction? Addition undoes subtraction!
In mathematical operations, addition, subtraction, and multiplication are governed by the order of operations, often remembered by the acronym PEMDAS (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division (from left to right), Addition and Subtraction (from left to right)). When addition, subtraction, and multiplication are used in a problem, multiplication is performed first, followed by addition and subtraction, which are executed from left to right. Thus, in a sequence where these operations appear together, multiplication takes priority over addition and subtraction.