I'm trying to mentally summarize the names of the operands for basic operations. I've got this so far:
- Addition: Augend + Addend = Sum.
- Subtraction: Minuend – Subtrahend = Difference.
- Multiplication: Multiplicand × Multiplier = Product. Generally, operands are called factors.
- Division: Dividend ÷ Divisor = Quotient.
- Modulation: Dividend % Divisor = Remainder.
- Exponentiation: Base ^ Exponent = ___.
- Finding roots: Degree √ Radicand = Root.
My questions:
- I've heard addend used generally for addition operands. Is that correct formal usage?
- Do subtraction and division lack general names for their operands because they are not commutative? Or am I just ignorant of them?
- Is the base the same as a mantissa?
- Is there a formal name for the result of exponentiation?
- Is there a formal name for the operation of finding the nth root?
- Am I missing anything else?
Best Answer
Found this table on Wikipedia. It has all the formal names for those operations plus logarithm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Calculation_results
Addition
${\left.{\begin{matrix}{\text{summand}}+{\text{summand}}\\{\text{addend (broad sense)}}+{\text{addend (broad sense)}}\\{\text{augend}}+{\text{addend (strict sense)}}\end{matrix}}\right\}}=sum$
Subtraction
${\text{minuend}}-{\text{subtrahend}}=difference$
Multiplication
$\left.{\begin{matrix}{\text{factor}}\times {\text{factor}}\\{\text{multiplier}}\times {\text{multiplicand}}\end{matrix}}\right\}=product$
Division
${\left.{\begin{matrix}{\frac {{\text{dividend}}}{{\text{divisor}}}}\\{\text{ }}\\{\frac {{\text{numerator}}}{{\text{denominator}}}}\end{matrix}}\right\}}={{\begin{matrix}fraction\\quotient\\ratio\end{matrix}}}$
Modulo
${\text{dividend}}{\bmod {\text{divisor}}}=remainder$
Exponentiation
${\text{base}}^{\text{exponent}}=power$
nth root
${\sqrt[{\text{degree}}]{{\text{radicand}}}}=root$
Logarithm
$\log _{\text{base}}({\text{antilogarithm}})=logarithm$