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
It has three Evangelical churches, among them that of St Anne, built 1499-1525, a Roman Catholic church, several public monuments, among them those of Luther, of the famous arithmetician Adam Riese, and of Barbara Uttmann.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
That is why the common arithmetician prefers music to poetry.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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)
“The boy may be a good arithmetician, but he knows nothing of London life,” he muttered to himself.
From Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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