Definition of Minuend

Definition of Minuend
A quantity or number from which another is to be subtracted. If you are subtracting one quantity from another, the starting amount is called the minuend; the amount subtracted from it is called the subtrahend. The result is called the difference. In practice, the terms "minuend" and "subtrahend" are rarely used outside of the classroom. So to simplify it: minuend - subtrahend = difference. In arithmetic, subtraction is one of the four basic binary 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, in contrast to the use of the plus sign for addition. Since subtraction is not a commutative operator, the two operands are named. The traditional names for the parts of the formula cb=a are minuend (c) subtrahend (b) = difference (a). subtraction = value1 value2 , Subtraction is used to model four related processes: Know More About :- Methods of Multiplication

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From a given collection, take away (subtract) a given number of objects. For example, 5 apples minus 2 apples leaves 3 apples. From a given measurement, take away a quantity measured in the same units. If I weigh 200 pounds, and lose 10 pounds, then I weigh 200 10 = 190 pounds. Compare two like quantities to find the difference between them. For example, the difference between $800 and $600 is $800 $600 = $200. Also known as comparative subtraction. To find the distance between two locations at a fixed distance from starting point. For example if, on a given highway, you see a mileage marker that says 150 miles and later see a mileage marker that says 160 miles, you have traveled 160 150 = 10 miles. In mathematics, it is often useful to view or even define subtraction as a kind of addition, the addition of the additive inverse. We can view 7 3 = 4 as the sum of two terms: 7 and -3. This perspective allows us to apply to subtraction all of the familiar rules and nomenclature of addition. Subtraction is not associative or commutative in fact, it is anticommutative and left-associativebut addition of signed numbers is both. There are some cases where subtraction as a separate operation becomes problematic. For example, 3 (2) (i.e. subtract 2 from 3) is not immediately obvious from either a natural number view or a number line view, because it is not immediately clear what it means to move 2 steps to the left or to take away 2 apples. One solution is to view subtraction as addition of signed numbers. Extra minus signs simply denote additive inversion. Then we have 3 (2) = 3 + 2 = 5. This also helps to keep the ring of integers "simple" by avoiding the introduction of "new" operators such as subtraction. Ordinarily a ring only has two operations defined on it; in the case of the integers, these are addition and multiplication. A ring already has the concept of additive inverses, but it does not have any notion of a separate subtraction operation, so the use of signed addition as subtraction allows us to apply the ring axioms to subtraction without needing to prove anything. There are various algorithms for subtraction, and they differ in their suitability for various applications. A number of methods are adapted to hand calculation; for example, when making change, no actual subtraction is performed, but rather the change-maker counts forward.

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