Subtrahend used in a sentence

Subtrahend in a sentence as a noun

Also, minuend and subtrahend are the standard terms.

Or do those processors' syntax keep the order but instead replace the subtrahend with the result??

The stategy is to walk the subtrahend left-to-right, eliminating from both as you go.

And it’s a useful term generally, much more likely to come up in conversation than “subtrahend” or “mantissa” but not nearly as much as “tangent.”

Try subtracting more complex numbers, specifically something more complex for the subtrahend.

It's interesting that the poster knows "subtrahend" and "minuend" and fully explains the algorithm, but can't solve the pre-algebra problem that shows that it is accurate.