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 Friedrich Engels
It was now the launch's turn: first the third boat, next the second, and now the launch in proper, though fortunately not arithmetical progression.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
Thus the mischief imputed to the Catholic sovereigns goes on increasing in a sort of arithmetical progression, with the duration of the monarchy.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by William Hickling Prescott
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