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Oh honey, addition wasn't "invented" like some fancy new gadget. It's just a basic math operation that humans figured out to combine numbers and make life easier. Someone probably realized they had two apples and two more apples, put them together, and thought, "Hey, that's four apples!" And just like that, addition was born.

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Addition was formalized by the Chinese 6000 years ago. It was only in 1544 when the addition or plus sign was invented by Michael Stiple.

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