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Proof that two things can become one bigger thing without a divorce lawyer.
means The act or process of adding things together, or something new joined onto something that already existed.
from From Latin 'additio,' built from 'addere' — 'ad-' (to, toward) plus 'dare' (to give or put). So at its root, addition is just the act of 'giving toward' something, piling on until the pile is bigger.
- first use
- humans counted sheep before they counted numbers
- symbol origin
- plus sign evolved from latin word et, meaning and
- secretly recursive
- all addition is just repeated counting by one
- commutative flex
- order never matters, unlike literally everything else in life