arithmetical
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But set aside the arithmetical questions for a second and the problems faced by Mr Sunak become clearer.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2023
However, a single day includes many parts, and may seem more than the mere arithmetical sum of all of them.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023
In 1798, English economist Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published his infamous treatise "An Essay on the Principle of Population," arguing "Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio."
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2022
Just as, in arithmetic, you learn to apply arithmetical operations to numbers—for example, addition or multiplication—you can also define set-theoretical operations that generate new sets from given ones.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021
Their model of the universe involved the "celestial spheres" creating a kind of harmony as they moved in circles dictated by the same arithmetical relationships as musical harmonies.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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