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
Considering myself for one moment as an arithmetician, I may say that I know next to nothing about my subject: but I know my subject.
From Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up our follies.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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 Stephen, Leslie, Sir
She decided that these gigantic sociological and political questions were for her what the higher mathematics are to the humble arithmetician.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
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