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
In this connection the old formula can be reversed: wealth increases in geometrical, living labour-power in arithmetical progression.
From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.
Learn to derive the three formulas in arithmetical progression: 2.
From A Review of Algebra by Rivenburg, Romeyn Henry
To effect this, connect together a series of numbers increasing by arithmetical progression with a series increasing by multiplication or by mathematical progression.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
