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arithmetic

noun as in mathematics

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After training, word2vec’s embeddings appeared to capture interesting semantic relationships between words that could be revealed through simple arithmetic operations on the vectors.

These are tropes that mathematicians like to use, and I think they’re very alienating to people who, for one reason or other, did not learn about modular arithmetic in kindergarten.

Roth was able to show that after a finite number of such distillations, you have a set so dense that it must contain arithmetic progressions.

You could, for example, walk down the number line and keep every number that doesn’t complete an arithmetic progression.

You might wonder, though, if there are significantly denser number sets that still avoid arithmetic progressions.

Anything with the Count (Count von Count if you're inclined to be formal) taught numbers and basic arithmetic through songs.

The J-K shooting was simple enough, in that it was a matter of arithmetic logic that one of them was telling the truth.

NEW DELHI, India — Narendra Modi is to be the new prime minister of India, and the arithmetic of his victory is stunning.

Well, a simple arithmetic count of the “top 100” reveals that there were only 75 books!

“The president has promised to change the arithmetic,” says Rothenberg.

It fell into the three more or less isolated subjects of arithmetic, algebra and Euclid.

Up to this I had always imagined that I disliked everything in the shape of arithmetic.

The third introduces a man in old Colburn's Arithmetic, driving his sheep or geese to market.

He heard the arithmetic class reciting and learned that only things of the same denomination can be subtracted from each other.

Suppose you send her up, Flora—you must want to go and draw or practice, and she may do her arithmetic here, or read to me.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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