arithmetician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of arithmetician
1550–60; < Middle French arithmeticien; see arithmetic, -ian
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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 think I am getting into what they call compound interest, and, to say the truth, I never was a very quick arithmetician.
From Rachel Gray by Julia Kavanagh
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
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
The accident, of which he had read that morning, caused him to put two and two together—making a round dozen, after the custom of his type of arithmetician.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
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