arithmetical progression
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Since 1920 Walgreen's growth has almost been an arithmetical progression.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Find four numbers in arithmetical progression, such that the sum of the first two is 1, and the sum of the last two is -19.
From A Review of Algebra by Romeyn Henry Rivenburg
One of the ideas is that of an arithmetical progression; another one is that of a geometrical progression.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski
