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 plainest form of an incontrovertible idea of eternity is the piling up of numbers unlimitedly in arithmetical progression.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich
But the products of the earth increase only in an arithmetical progression, and in fifty years the food supply would be too small for the demand.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
Insert between 6 and 16 two numbers, such that the first three of the four shall be in arithmetical progression, and the last three in geometrical progression.
From A Review of Algebra by Rivenburg, Romeyn Henry
