arithmetic

You may not be earning a six-figure salary like that other letter writer, but your outlook is far less bleak than the initial arithmetic suggests.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It changes the air defense arithmetic pretty substantially,” Panda said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The star and showrunner of “Girls” is the best possible line of demarcation for “millennial art” for meta-textual and arithmetic reasons.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

It is remarkably fast, and by its maker’s arithmetic, cheap to run.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Several times I stopped and tried to do a little arithmetic in the dust of the country road.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.

From Time Magazine Archive

So they came forward in their order: Julia, And Isabel, and Caroline; until I was dragged forth from maps and lexicons, Slate-pencils and arithmetics, and put Candidate Number Four, upon the list.

From The Woman Who Dared by Epes Sargent

In the older arithmetics they contented themselves with doing "a certain piece of work."

From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

Does the fact that the early European arithmetics, following the Arab custom, always put the 0 after the 9, suggest that the 0 was derived from the old Hindu symbol for 10?

From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Louis Charles Karpinski

I am afraid a professional accountant would heap scorn upon it, as my methods are not those taught in the arithmetics; but that consideration does not concern me.

From Windyridge by W. Riley