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APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVELY INCREMENTING AND DECREMENTING A BINARY QUALITY HAVING A NUMBER OF ORDERS, INCLUDING: A NUMBER OF INPUT MEANS, EACH HAVING AN OUTPUT FOR SUPPLYING A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE ORDER OF SAID BINARY QUANTITY; A SINGLE CONTROL MEANS FOR SUPPLYING ONE SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF AN INCREMENT COMMAND AND ANOTHER SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF A DECREMENT COMMAND; A NUMBER OF ORDERS OF SIMULTANEOUSLY FUNCTIONING SUMMING MEANS, DETERMINED BY THE NUMBER OF BINARY ORDERS, EACH ORDER HAVING FIRST AND SECOND INPUTS FOR RECEIVING SIGNALS AND EACH ORDER HAVING AN OUTPUT FOR SUPPLYING SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SUM OF THE SIGNALS RECEIVED BY THE CORRESPONDING FIRST AND SECOND INPUTS, A NUMBER OF ORDER OF SIMULTANEOUSLY FUNCTIONING PROPAGATION MEANS, DETERMINED BY THE NUMBER OF BINARY ORDERS, EACH ORDER HAVING FIRST AND SECOND INPUTS FOR RECEIVING SIGNALS AND EACH ORDER HAVING AN OUTPUT FOR SUPPLYING PROPAGATE SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SIGNALS RECEIVED BY CORRESPONDING, AND ALL LOWER ORDER, ONES OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND INPUTS; MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING SAID BINARY SIGNALS FROM SAID INPUT MEANS TO CORRESPONDING ORDERS OF SAID FIRST INPUTS OF SAID SUMMING MEANS AND TO CORRESPONDING ORDERS OF SAID PROPAGATION MEANS FIRST INPUTS; MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING SAID CONTROL SIGNAL FROM SAID CONTROL MEANS TO SAID PROPAGATION MEANS SECOND INPUTS; AND MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING SAID PROPAGATION MEANS OUTPUT SIGNALS TO CORRESPONDING ONES OF SAID SUMMING MEANS SECOND INPUTS.