arithmetic
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Eventually, the arithmetic gets down to the ramekin.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
You may not be earning a six-figure salary like that other letter writer, but your outlook is far less bleak than the initial arithmetic suggests.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
“It changes the air defense arithmetic pretty substantially,” Panda said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The star and showrunner of “Girls” is the best possible line of demarcation for “millennial art” for meta-textual and arithmetic reasons.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
After all, I don’t know those Bostonians or San Franciscans or Kansans who have taken ill; the numbers, though alarming, held no personal arithmetic.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To meet the varying needs of teachers these arithmetics are now issued in two editions—a two-book series and a three-book series.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
SEE BRUECKNER, LEO J. The new triangle arithmetics.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Our present system is organized and set forth in arithmetics under some fifteen so-called "tables."
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
There the interruption of commerce with the North compelled a resort to home production in school-book literature, and intensity of feeling upon sectional questions found frequent expression in spelling-books and arithmetics.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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