arithmetic

For the businesses that supply props, artwork and other services, the arithmetic is simpler: Any shoot is better than none.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

You can do the arithmetic: about 20 curves per mile, speed limit 15 mph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

The cause wasn’t ideology but arithmetic: The old bargain of household specialization—one spouse in the market, one in the home, concentrating where they were most productive—became unaffordable as women’s earnings rose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026

In the mornings she teaches arithmetic to his younger pupils, and afterward spends many hours at his bright-white shirtsleeve conjugating the self-same reflexive verbs—I’homme se noie—which a year ago she declared pointless.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

He does not discuss a symbol, but he shows by his treatment that in some way zero had acquired a special significance not found in the Greek or other ancient arithmetics.

From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Louis Charles Karpinski

Lemprière was the great magician who summoned up before my delighted eyes the denizens of a sphere where existence was unvexed by any pestilent arithmetics, and where the slavery of the inky desk was unknown.

From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks