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
I have never known a mud-dauber to make a mistake in her computation, although I have endeavored to puzzle this little arithmetician time and again.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James
Mr. Paine, no doubt, had in his mind this passage of Junius when he described him as a twirling top, a good arithmetician in politics, but in every thing else nothing at all.
From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel
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
Nesselrode.—No psalmist, or engineer, or commissary, or arithmetician, could enumerate the beasts that are harnessed to them, or the fiends that urge them on.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
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