Computation

Usage examples of arithmetic.

Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.

When these proofs come fairly before the world, and are clearly seen by all who understand arithmetic, it is scarcely possible that abstinence from aliments demonstrably pernicious should not become universal.

A little sum in mental arithmetic, which he worked on the way and submitted to the cabman at the end of the journey, was found to be wrong.

I found that I was doing everything in decimal rather than the duodecimal arithmetic that I had taught everybody else.

I may add, before I quit this subject, that the Martial system of arithmetic differs from ours principally in the use of a duodecimal instead of a decimal basis.

She was fortunate in that her subject happened to be Lower School arithmetic, for, in spite of assertions to the contrary by various eminent educationists, the fact remains that the majority of children under fourteen like arithmetic even when they are not particularly good at it.

Everything was as we have said, a question of arithmetic to Cocles, and during twenty years he had always seen all payments made with such exactitude, that it seemed as impossible to him that the house should stop payment, as it would to a miller that the river that had so long turned his mill should cease to flow.

And the hammam, I think, must rank with those other great Arabian inventions: arithmetic and its numbers and the abaco for counting.

Her father gave her problems in arithmetic, and she wrote their names and her own for them.

By associating various mathematical problems with his constructive exercises, the teacher can frequently cause the pupil to transfer in some degree his primary interest in manual training to the associated work in arithmetic.

Ed Tanager was vaguely aware of this although time and arithmetic were now encompassed by the symmetrical face of the manometer dial and the distorted face of his daughter.

The invention of formal arithmetic and symbolic logic, both mathematicizing the instinctive strategies of human reason, making them as distinct and solid as geometric proofs.

And the day goes on and on, getting worse and worse you mislay your exercise-book, you drop your arithmetic in the mud, your pencil breaks, and when you open your knife to sharpen the pencil you split your nail.

Still, he worked with concentration, and we finished four more subtests of the WISC-R -- Picture Completion, Similarities, Picture Arrangement, and Arithmetic.

WISC-R subtests of Arithmetic, Coding, Informationeaand Digit Span are often found to have some type of learning disability.