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
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 F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
He was a natural mathematician, and was the most profound and original arithmetician in the Southwest.
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes
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 James Weir
He says the circumference contains the diameter exactly times 1008449087377541679894282184894 3 ———————————————— 6997183637540819440035239271702 But he does not come very near, as the young arithmetician will find.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
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