[djcapelis]

You can make the FSM repeat the addition, but you can't give it the memory it needs to know when to stop.

If you need more explanation just try implementing it, you should see where the problem is fairly quickly. :)

[sesqu]

So how do you get it to add? Specifically, what representation of arbitrary numbers are we using with our finite automaton? Infinite read-only tape plus infinite write-only tape for output, in base 10? If so, it should be simple to do multiplication by representing the numbers in factorized form and applying our adder.