arithmetic
Example Sentences
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The standoff matters because of the unusual arithmetic of the Fed’s seven-member board.
Young Dado grew up in a house with no electricity and walked barefoot to school, where he used bamboo sticks to learn arithmetic.
Maybe she already knew about the cost of one of Madam Lucille’s readings—at ten dollars per session and two of us needing our futures revealed, well, that wasn’t difficult arithmetic.
From Literature
A complex bit of annual budget arithmetic comes from forecast error.
From BBC
An avid numerologist, in 1987, he issued new currency in denominations of nine -- a digit considered auspicious, but bewildering shoppers with mental arithmetic.
From Barron's
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