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In the first book on the design of electronic switching circuits1 the accumulator was defined as a circuit that adds and stores. This definition is the starting point for this chapter. This definition contrasts with the modern trend to indicate with this name nothing more than a register.

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Oberman, R.M.M. (1979). Accumulative Adding. In: Digital Circuits for Binary Arithmetic. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04242-5_8

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