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
We here detect a person quite unnoticed hitherto by the moderns, Magnus the arithmetician.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
Of Carlile’s family, I can gather little beyond this, that his father had some reputation as an arithmetician.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by George Jacob Holyoake
The parties are to be to him merely A and B, and he has to work out the result as an arithmetician works out a sum.
From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Sir Leslie Stephen
He could distinguish colors, was a good arithmetician, could discharge a loaded cannon, tell a hidden card in a pack, and jump through a hoop, all for twenty-five cents.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
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