arithmetic

“It changes the air defense arithmetic pretty substantially,” Panda said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Bessent’s rough 3% math would work, according to forecasters, though exact arithmetic depends on several assumptions and targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Both were usually euphemisms for the same thing: I was dieting, and I had already begun the day’s arithmetic.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

You can do the arithmetic: about 20 curves per mile, speed limit 15 mph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Once I was sitting by myself at the table, studying arithmetic, when I heard a rustling behind me.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the older arithmetics they contented themselves with doing "a certain piece of work."

From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

A catalogue of the arithmetics written before the year MDCI, with a description of those in the library of G. A. Plimpton.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

There were also a few arithmetics and algebras, a historical novel or two, and the inevitable copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, whose pages I had freely moistened with my tears.

From The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw

Our present system is organized and set forth in arithmetics under some fifteen so-called "tables."

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous