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arithmetic

[uh-rith-muh-tik, ar-ith-met-ik] / əˈrɪθ mə tɪk, ˌær ɪθˈmɛt ɪk /


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“The arithmetic isn’t there for him to form a coalition,” said Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Makers of personal computers face the same arithmetic, though not all are equally exposed.

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

According to a biography of Woods published in 1887, he attended school until about the age of 10, learning basic reading, writing and arithmetic, before leaving to apprentice in blacksmithing and machining.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

She remembered how her maths teachers would put her "on the spot" by asking her to do mental arithmetic in front of the whole class.

From BBC Apr. 15, 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

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

Smith, of Boston, was in our department the efficient agent, we were amply supplied with various kinds of books and utensils, embracing primers, arithmetics, slates and pencils, besides a liberal allowance of reading matter.

From Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops Personal Narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No. 7, Second Series by Addeman, Joshua M. (Joshua Melancthon)

SEE     BRUECKNER, LEO J.   The new triangle arithmetics.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

His name was Daboll, and he claimed to be descended from that ancient Connecticut maker of arithmetics and almanacs, Nathan Daboll.

From Confessions of Boyhood by Albee, John