arithmetic
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While the gilt market took Burnham’s fiscal plans in its stride, investors will want to see the arithmetic in the October 28 autumn budget, Monex Europe analysts said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
It is remarkably fast, and by its maker’s arithmetic, cheap to run.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
You can do the arithmetic: about 20 curves per mile, speed limit 15 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Ah,” said Charlie, whose arithmetic never added up to much.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
A catalogue of the arithmetics written before the year MDCI, with a description of those in the library of G. A. Plimpton.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
The common weights and measures are as necessary in the school-room as are spelling-books and arithmetics.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
The little children stood outside, with their joggerfies, and arithmetics, and spellers, and slates bound in red flannel under their arms, and swallowed hard as they looked.
From Back Home by Eugene Wood
He published several arithmetics, dedicating them to his patron, Colbert.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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