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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's me, a degree-holding full time computer scientist, just learning arithmetic I guess.

Bonus question: what even is subtraction? I'm 99% sure it doesn't exist since I've never used it, I only ever use addition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Addition by the additive inverse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now you just replaced one incalculable thing with a different incalculable thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Computers don't subtract, and you can't just add a negative, a computer can't interpret a negative number, it can only store a flag that the number is negative. You need to use a couple addition tricks to subtract to numbers to ensure that the computer only has to add. It's addition all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What does this have to do with computers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

what even is subtraction?

It's just addition wearing a trench coat, fake beard and glasses