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WalterBright on July 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn electronics by practice

> this is mostly poor writing on the part of the author

Indeed. The correct way is:

"It is trivially obvious to the most casual observer that the chip performs the addition of two 4-bit binary words"

pfyra on July 9, 2023 [–]

There should be a "clearly" in there as well as that word by itself is commonly believed to bring a lot of clarity.

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