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
He is well up in logarithms, and a capital arithmetician, I won’t say mathematician, though he knows something of mathematics as well.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
He has but a miserable knowledge of arithmetic, who is no arithmetician without a pen or pencil in his hand.
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
She decided that these gigantic sociological and political questions were for her what the higher mathematics are to the humble arithmetician.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
The arithmetician, the algebraist, and more generally the analyst, in whom invention obtains in the most abstract form of discontinuous functions—symbols and their relations—cannot imagine like the geometrician.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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