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US
/ˌɛɹɪθˈmɛtɪk, ɝˈɪθməˌtɪk/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or involving arithmetic
arithmetical computations
NOUN
- the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations
How To Use arithmetic In A Sentence
- Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Half are doing as well at reading, writing and arithmetic as white British pupils at primary school. The Sun
- arithmetical computations
- In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
- Some indeed were revelling in the formulae of algebraical infinity and of twenty-four-dimensional space, like a child in the elementary class dealing with the four rules of arithmetic.
- Gauss in 1801 was to take Euler's work much further and gives a considerable amount of work on modular arithmetic which amounts to a fair amount of theory of abelian groups.
- The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations.
- He was the first to identify the group of four canonical sciences (logistic [arithmetic], geometry, astronomy and music), which would become known as the quadrivium in the middle ages. Archytas
- It is, rather, a handbook for philosophy students, written to illustrate how arithmetic, geometry, stereometry, music, and astronomy are interrelated.
- The builders may have carried the design in their heads like mental arithmetic. Times, Sunday Times