arithmetician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of arithmetician
1550–60; < Middle French arithmeticien; 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
John was a fair penman and a sound arithmetician, and Stephenson sought his society chiefly for the purpose of improving himself in writing and “figures.”
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
You have to be somewhat of an arithmetician to think one week in piastres and the next in dinars, and the next in crowns, and the next in marks.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Graham, Stephen
He has gone into the detail in proper A.G. spirit, namely, as an arithmetician rather than a tactician.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Hamilton, Ian, Sir
She was mistress of the Latin, French, and Italian languages; she was said to be a perfect arithmetician and astronomer, and possessed the art of painting on silk to a degree of exquisite perfection.
From A Walk from London to Fulham by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)
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