The plus sign. +
To add values in the cells A3 and B3 you would do the following:
=A3+B3
There are many signs used in Excel. Three of them are the plus sign (+), the minus sign (-) and the multiplication sign (*).
The addition sign was first used in 1544.
The plus sign does adding and the minus sign does subtraction in Excel: =A10+B2 =A2-50 The * is used for multiplication. The / is used for division: =A2*A3 =A6/40
It has no special name. It is just the plus sign.
the asterisk is used for what function when building a formula in excel
A plus sign is the symbol that represents addition. If you put A1 + A2 in cell A3, you will see the result of the addition of the contents of A1 and A2 in cell A3.
In Excel, you use the asterisk, "*". As to the name, I would just call it the "multiplication sign".
There can be different categories of symbols used, but the ones you are referring to would be operators, such as the signs for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Other symbols used include brackets and symbols to aid formatting like currency symbols, decimal points and percentage signs.
It is the sign used for addition in mathematics. 10 + 6 = 16
The equal sign in Excel is used to start a formula. All formulas begin with the equals sign. It can also be used for comparing things. In the following example, the first equals sign is starting the formula and the second one is comparing cell A2 and B2: =A2=B2
Excel can do any kind of mathematical operation, so that includes addition and subtraction.
A formula must begin with an equals sign (=).