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
The news from Palermo may be said to have converted him from an arithmetician into an astronomer.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
The late Bishop Colenso, famous for his disputations on the Old Testament and also as an arithmetician, was greatly beloved among the Zulus.
From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
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
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