arithmetical

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However, a single day includes many parts, and may seem more than the mere arithmetical sum of all of them.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023

In 1798, English economist Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published his infamous treatise "An Essay on the Principle of Population," arguing "Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio."

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2022

Just as, in arithmetic, you learn to apply arithmetical operations to numbers—for example, addition or multiplication—you can also define set-theoretical operations that generate new sets from given ones.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2021

The companies, hoping to reduce their liabilities, had argued that the country’s telecommunications department made arithmetical errors while calculating their AGR dues.

From Reuters • Jul. 23, 2021

As John Aubrey put it more than a century later, Recorde ‘was the first that wrote a good arithmetical treatise in English’ and ‘the first that ever wrote of astronomie in the English tongue’.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin