arithmetic
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“It changes the air defense arithmetic pretty substantially,” Panda said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Both were usually euphemisms for the same thing: I was dieting, and I had already begun the day’s arithmetic.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 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
Sometimes he made me do my arithmetic homework in binary numbers because he said I needed to be challenged.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 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
SEE BRUECKNER, LEO J. The new curriculum arithmetics.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Vocabulary lists containing arithmetic
Expressions and Equations
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Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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