Question

Wallace trees are designs that [emphasize] contain components that perform this action. The Model K was devised by George Stibitz to showcase a proof of concept for this action. Kogge-Stone and Brent-Kung are examples of architectures that speed up this action. Those architectures introduce the logic vectors P and G to “look ahead” parts of this action and are significantly faster than the (*) “ripple” (10[1]-5[1])method. Two components that perform this operation are prefixed “half-” and (10[4])“full-” depending on the (10[1])existence (10[1])of a (-5[1])carry signal. The XOR (“X-or”) logic gate is equivalent to performing this (10[1])action modulo (10[5])2. The (10[1]-5[1])binary (10[1])form of this (10[1])action (-5[1])yields zero if both inputs are (-5[2])one. For 10 points, name this (-5[1])operation exemplified by “1 + 1 = (10[1])2.” (10[7]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: addition [accept binary addition; accept adders or half-adders or full-adders or ripple-carry adders or carry-lookahead adders] (Wallace multipliers contain half- and full-adders, but are not adders themselves.)
<Ezra Santos, Other Science>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%0%50%89.50
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%0%20%97.40
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y4100%0%50%106.50
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%0%25%97.38
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%0%96.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ariel FaederPittsburghCarnegie Mellon6310
Anurag SodhiMITHarvard B63-5
Adam FineChicago ANorthwestern A7410
Matthew SiffYale AHarvard A7410
Agnijo BanerjeeSee itThe Crying of Team 497410
Justin KeungLimp ChriskitSorted7410
Andrew WangIllinois AIndiana A7810
June YinWUSTLMinnesota7910
Nathaniel MartinBrandeisBU81-5
Jiping FangIllinois CNotre Dame A9210
Coby TranChicago BSIUE9410
Gangrade AdityaBUBrandeis9410
Iyanu NafiuYale BTufts9410
David BassJHU ANYU A9410
Lucas ShedlockPrincetonColumbia9410
Jerry ZhangHarvard BMIT9610
Abigail TanFour Times I Have Despised My SoulGressenheller A96-5
Adam Jones3HK1MMSay it9710
Zaid AsifNYU BJHU B10010
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan AMichigan B101-5
Stephen WalshNorthwestern BIndiana B107-5
Davis JohnsonPurdueNotre Dame C107-5
Mohamad MusaOhio State BMichigan State113-5
Sanika IyerIndiana BNorthwestern B12010
Leo TaoMichigan BMichigan A12110
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State COhio State A1210
Jacob GoodsonOhio State AOhio State C12110
Ethan NewmanMichigan StateOhio State B12110
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BNotre Dame B12110
Kennedy GallaherNotre Dame CPurdue12110
Sam MooreGressenheller AFour Times I Have Despised My Soul12110
Ved MuthusamyOxford School for QuiznessLSE12110