minuend

If the minuend is less than the subtrahend, the difference will be a negative number.

However, the 10 is not taken by reducing the minuend, rather one augments the subtrahend.

The minuend is 704, the subtrahend is 512.

At 12:21 15th Feb 2011, minuend wrote: What a complete waste of time and money.

In situation in which no borrowing is needed, one only needs to take the number of rods in the subtrahend from the minuend.

Similarly with subtraction, remove the elements of the subtrahend symbol from the minuend symbol:

If the subtrahend has fewer digits than the minuend, leading zeros must be added which will become leading nines when the complement is taken.

The first number (5 in the previous example) is formally defined as the minuend and the second number (3 in the previous example) as the subtrahend.

The slat was then moved to expose the black digits (which now displayed the nines' complement of the subtrahend) and the minuend was added by dialing it in.

At 12:57 15th Feb 2011, minuend wrote: WHAT A RIP OFF!

At 12:25 15th Feb 2011, minuend wrote: £50 to watch a game of football????????????????

To subtract a number y (the subtrahend) from another number x (the minuend), the radix complement of y is added to x and the initial '1' of the result is discarded.

If there are not enough bars, a dot is removed from the next higher minuend symbol in the column and four bars are added to the minuend symbol which is being worked on.

The value of the minuend is larger than the value of the subtrahend so that the result is a positive number, but a smaller value of the minuend will result in negative numbers.

In this case, the minuend is effectively rewritten as 90 + 10, by taking a 100 from the hundreds, making ten 10s from it, and immediately borrowing that down to nine 10s in the tens column and finally placing a 10 in the ones column.

In such cases the difference instrumental value of the object is the difference between the positive and negative value, with the positive value as minuend and the negative value as subtrahend and the resulting difference value the mathematic difference between them.