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Borrow

The procedure used in subtraction to "borrow" 10 from the next higher digit column in order to obtain a positive difference in the column in question.


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Carry

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Borrow." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Borrow.html

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