Quote: Babbage developed a method for carrying tens; addition took 15-16 time units

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This new and rapid system of carrying the tens when two numbers are added together, reduced the actual time of the addition of any number of digits, however large, to nine units of time for the addition, and one for the carriage. ... A few more units of time, perhaps five or six, were required for making the requisite previous arrangements.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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