What are the carried numbers called in an Addition problem

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What is the 1 that is carried called?

These are all Latin, would this make sense?

The Latin word for "carry" is "porto", would it be called Porto?

Just guessing here

Example:

  123  <-- Augend or Addend
 +  9  <-- Addend
______


   1   <-- What is this called?
  123
 +  9
______
    2


  123
 +  9
______
  132  <-- Sum
2

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They are referred to as carries in http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Carry.html.

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In compsci, when we add binary numbers, we call this the "carry bit."