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On the assumption that many general readers are as unmathematical as I am, I will use them sparingly, though they are occasionally unavoidable, not least in a chapter dealing with things on a cosmic scale.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

I shall give you a full, true, and particular account of the discovery, rise, and progress of this place, with a religious adherence to dates which will rather astonish your unmathematical mind.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

The unmathematical undulation of the column in Paestum is analogous to the modification of the tempo: animation in place of a mechanical movement.

From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)

As a relief from searching for news in a press devoid of news, the study of these problems is welcome enough, and to the unmathematical mind, no doubt, the solutions appear to be something miraculous.

From If I May by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

But to the mathematical mind a thing more miraculous is the awe with which the unmathematical regard the simplest manipulation of figures.

From If I May by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)