arithmetician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of arithmetician
1550–60; < Middle French arithmeticien; see arithmetic, -ian
Example Sentences
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One high school girl rang up to ask how to divide 182 by 9; her listener, no arithmetician, was stumped.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is why the common arithmetician prefers music to poetry.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up our follies.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
We here detect a person quite unnoticed hitherto by the moderns, Magnus the arithmetician.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
And for want of such precaution as this, the arithmetician is at sea the moment he steps out of the narrow path of mechanical routine.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
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