Section B.6 Vocabulary Summary
There is a lot of vocabulary that goes along with basic arithmetic, and even many people who can do the arithmetic are unsure of the right words to discuss the process. Here we summarize the vocabulary from this section.
| symbol | action | first number | second number | result |
| \(+\) | add | each is a term | sum | |
| \(-\) | subtract | term | subtrahend | difference |
\(\cdot\text{,}\) \(\times\text{,}\) or no symbol at all |
multiply | each is a factor | product | |
\(\div\text{,}\) or written with a fraction bar |
divide | dividend | divisor | quotient |
^, or second number written in superscript |
exponentiate | base | exponent | power |