Timeline for Is there a single word that means "to add an amount to a running total"?
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| Jun 21, 2020 at 15:09 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 27, 2020 at 6:18 | comment | added | Steve Lovell | "Include them in the sharp count" seems natural to me. | |
| May 22, 2020 at 14:45 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | One more thought. One could argue that increment captures both "the result of the tallying process" (noun) and "the action of adding that tally to the running total" (verb). If this is of some interest to you, you might want to consider encouraging @HotLicks to convert his comment into an answer. | |
| May 22, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | The increment need not be 1. It could be anything you want it to be. It's sound mathematical language. | |
| May 22, 2020 at 14:07 | comment | added | Code Jockey | @RichardKayser -- in my understanding, 1 is implicit as the increment unless stated otherwise, so "increment the running total by 10" or "increment the total by that number" - it actually may be applicable enough to my usage, but I'm not sure if it's the best answer to my question (again, if there is one) | |
| May 22, 2020 at 13:26 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | Could one not say "increment the running total", as suggested by @HotLicks? That's just only word. It's implicit that one has to determine the size of increment first and then simply add it to the running total. | |
| May 22, 2020 at 11:14 | comment | added | Code Jockey | "increment by" would be a good meaning -- if given a straight number -- but doesn't to my knowledge have the WHOLE "count and add to" meaning and it would be two words... obviously if I can't figure out a single word, I'll have to consider compound words, though | |
| May 20, 2020 at 21:58 | answer | added | Richard Kayser | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 19:51 | answer | added | Tinfoil Hat | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 20, 2020 at 18:13 | comment | added | Hot Licks | How about "increment"? | |
| May 20, 2020 at 17:52 | history | asked | Code Jockey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |