Minecraft wiki entry for Redstone_computers, associated text: All ALUs, to perform adding operations, require the presence of multiple adders. Every two bits will feed into an adder which, when joined with other adders, will produce an output which is the sum of the two bytes added together. An adder has an input, an output, and two carry input/output as would a person carry when doing the addition of 9 + 1 or 01 + 01. The adders are made of logic gates which is possible by the nomenclature of binary. Tutorials/Arithmetic logic gives a very detailed look into full adders and half adders, for now, there is a schematic of how to construct one. It gives four inputs/outputs and should be connected with other adders to create a unit. For this example, we will connect four adders together in our four-bit computer so that we can take in all four bits to make an output. There will be an input carry missing from the first adder, this is because there is nothing to carry from the bit before it, it is the first bit. The input carry will remain at zero. There will also be an output carry missing from the fourth adder, and the output of this will be ignored as we can only support four bits. The additional fourth carry output is wired to the overflow flag to signify the operation couldn't be done. This is called a binary overflow.