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  • noun Plural form of arithmetician.

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Examples

  • They were used by the Greek and Latin arithmeticians long before the age of Boethius.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • They were not that kind of arithmeticians, they said.

    My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915

  • There was talk of all countries putting bounties on children to increase the birth rate, but it was laughed to scorn by the arithmeticians, who pointed out that China was too far in the lead in that direction.

    THE UNPARALLELED INVASION 2010

  • The irregularities of Western number words may not be helpful for budding arithmeticians, but they are of extreme interest to mathematical historians.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The Internet helped, enabling him to meet legions of kindred spirits—mental arithmeticians are, in general, not extroverts.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • Again, if we take the arts of which we were just now speaking: - do not arithmetic and the arithmeticians teach us the properties of number?

    Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments 2010

  • The irregularities of Western number words may not be helpful for budding arithmeticians, but they are of extreme interest to mathematical historians.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The Internet helped, enabling him to meet legions of kindred spirits—mental arithmeticians are, in general, not extroverts.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The Internet helped, enabling him to meet legions of kindred spirits—mental arithmeticians are, in general, not extroverts.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The irregularities of Western number words may not be helpful for budding arithmeticians, but they are of extreme interest to mathematical historians.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

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