arithmetical progression
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"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."
From Time Magazine Archive
Since 1920 Walgreen's growth has almost been an arithmetical progression.
From Time Magazine Archive
The values of the function of x, cekx, increase according to the terms of a geometrical progression as the variable x increases in arithmetical progression....
From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred
Now for the interpolation of the rest, I considered that the denominators 1, 3, 5, &c., were in arithmetical progression; and that therefore only the numerical coefficients of the numerators were to be investigated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
In how many different ways may we play six dominoes, from an ordinary box of twenty-eight, so that the numbers on them may lie in arithmetical progression?
From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
