arithmetical progression
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"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."
From Time Magazine Archive
Since 1920 Walgreen's growth has almost been an arithmetical progression.
From Time Magazine Archive
They increased in unpleasantness in arithmetical progression, until they culminated finally in a terrific encounter with the justly outraged Norris.
From A Prefect's Uncle by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
His income increased in arithmetical progression, and his expenditure in geometrical.
From Marge Askinforit by Pain, Barry
In how many different ways may we play six dominoes, from an ordinary box of twenty-eight, so that the numbers on them may lie in arithmetical progression?
From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
