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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” method. Two components that perform this operation are prefixed “half-” and (10[1])“full-” depending on the (10[1])existence (10[1])of a carry signal. The XOR (“X-or”) logic gate is equivalent to performing this (10[1])action modulo (10[1])2. The binary form of this action yields zero if both inputs are (-5[2])one. For 10 points, name this operation exemplified by “1 + 1 = (10[1])2.” (10[2])■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>
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