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 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
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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Of Carlile’s family, I can gather little beyond this, that his father had some reputation as an arithmetician.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by George Jacob Holyoake
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 Gordon Stables
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