Adder Definition and 51 Threads

An adder is a digital circuit that performs addition of numbers.
In many computers and other kinds of processors adders are used in the arithmetic logic units or ALU. They are also used in other parts of the processor, where they are used to calculate addresses, table indices, increment and decrement operators and similar operations.
Although adders can be constructed for many number representations, such as binary-coded decimal or excess-3, the most common adders operate on binary numbers.
In cases where two's complement or ones' complement is being used to represent negative numbers, it is trivial to modify an adder into an adder–subtractor.
Other signed number representations require more logic around the basic adder.

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    Full adder boolean logic question

    Full adder has input A, B and Cin. what is Cin for? Full adder adds 3 bits right?[?] So why not just call the input A,B,C instead of A,B,Cin?
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