arithmetical progression
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Since 1920 Walgreen's growth has almost been an arithmetical progression.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."
From Time Magazine Archive
That they wore moustaches, lived and loved like passionate humanity did not seem to matter compared with the arithmetical progression of their averages.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
In this connection the old formula can be reversed: wealth increases in geometrical, living labour-power in arithmetical progression.
From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.
The values of the function of x, cekx, increase according to the terms of a geometrical progression as the variable x increases in arithmetical progression....
From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred
