arithmetical

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to arithmetic; according to the rules or method of arithmetic.

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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. Howard H. Aiken

One day he said: For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it s just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity. Jean-Baptiste Say

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio. Thomas Malthus

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. Arthur Conan Doyle

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. Franz Kafka

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