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
“It changes the air defense arithmetic pretty substantially,” Panda said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
But the arithmetic was suddenly visible anyway: one broken appliance repaired, one replacement avoided, however many dollars still in somebody’s pocket.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
It is what the arithmetic does to them as their AI usage grows — and usage is only growing in one direction.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
In fact, some of the ideas discussed in this book are quite sophisticated, yet the mathematical prerequisites for understanding them are truly minimal: some facility with arithmetic and an understanding of fractions, decimals, and percentages.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Study arithmetics, book 7, and Mathematics and life, book 1; teacher's guidebook.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
The oldest produced their geographies and arithmetics and showed her how far they had gone.
From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen
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
Lemprière was the great magician who summoned up before my delighted eyes the denizens of a sphere where existence was unvexed by any pestilent arithmetics, and where the slavery of the inky desk was unknown.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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