arithmetic progression

Nevertheless, the ideas became an important ingredient in the Green-Tao theorem, which shows that the set of prime numbers contains arithmetic progressions of any given length.
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On her own path, though, the “relationship know-it-all” is embracing her own, different natural progression.
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Anything with the Count (Count von Count if you're inclined to be formal) taught numbers and basic arithmetic through songs.
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The J-K shooting was simple enough, in that it was a matter of arithmetic logic that one of them was telling the truth.
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[I] had to create the progression of where he was emotionally.
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NEW DELHI, India — Narendra Modi is to be the new prime minister of India, and the arithmetic of his victory is stunning.
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It fell into the three more or less isolated subjects of arithmetic, algebra and Euclid.
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Up to this I had always imagined that I disliked everything in the shape of arithmetic.
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A perishing formation loses moral force in more rapid progression than the mere loss of members would seem to warrant.
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The third introduces a man in old Colburn's Arithmetic, driving his sheep or geese to market.
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He heard the arithmetic class reciting and learned that only things of the same denomination can be subtracted from each other.
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British Dictionary definitions for arithmetic progression

noun

a sequence of numbers or quantities, each term of which differs from the succeeding term by a constant amount, such as 3,6,9,12Compare geometric progression

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Scientific definitions for arithmetic progression

arithmetic progression

[ ăr′ĭth-mĕt′ĭk ]

A sequence of numbers such as 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 …, in which each term after the first is formed by adding a constant (in this case, 2) to the preceding number. Compare geometric progression.

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