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  • a  relating to or involving arithmetic
    arithmetical computations

  • Another test, in which numbered arithmetical symbols must be put in correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result.
  • In a surprisingly outspoken report, a Ford Foundation team last week warned India that it is on a grim arithmetical collision course.
  • Obsessed with a sense of guilt and fears of insanity and death, Johnson prescribed his own remedy for fits of melancholia: busying himself with involved arithmetical problems.
News & Articles

  • Interview: A Tête-à-tête with Embryonic Paranormal Scribe Vivi Dumas
    Interview: A Tête-à-tête with Embryonic Paranormal Scribe Vivi Dumas Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 8:56 am, Saturday, March 2, 2013 Vivi Dumas is an embryonic novelist in the paranormal romance genre. To set the scales of her logical, arithmetical ...
    July 17, 2013 - seattlepi.com
Quotes

  • David Heathcoat-Amory in BBC News
    Mr Heathcoat-Amory said: "The repayment was delayed by an arithmetical error in the original assessment by Sir Thomas Legg, but was made this week."
  • Peter Sarnak in Princeton University The Daily Princetonian
    I particularly liked his theorem [which] asserts that there are arbitrary long arithmetical progressions in the prime numbers. An apparently useless theorem, but one which is very appealing especially if you like prime numbers,Sarnak said in...
  • Robert Woodhouse in Economist
    The symbol -1 is beyond the power of arithmetical computation,wrote Robert Woodhouse, another Cambridge mathematician, in 1801.

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