or that he who errs in arithmetic or grammar is an
arithmetician or grammarian at the me when he is making the mistake, in respect of the mistake?
So then," said Roque Guinart, "we have got here nine hundred crowns and sixty reals; my soldiers must number some sixty; see how much there falls to each, for I am a bad
arithmetician.
You talk of figures, now; you have only to say to Stelling, 'I want my son to be a thorough
arithmetician,' and you may leave the rest to him.
The staple conversation on the farms around was on the uselessness of saving money; and smockfrocked
arithmeticians, leaning on their ploughs or hoes, would enter into calculations of great nicety to prove that parish relief was a fuller provision for a man in his old age than any which could result from savings out of their wages during a whole lifetime.
There was talk of all countries putting bounties on children to increase the birth rate, but it was laughed to scorn by the
arithmeticians, who pointed out that China was too far in the lead in that direction.
Give him sixpence, or five shillings, or five pound ten--you are
arithmeticians, and I am not--and get rid of him
The product (as the
arithmeticians would say) is an intelligible statement--first, of something actually done in the past; secondly, of something which Mr.
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased
arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
It is also unclear what it means to call forms numbers, as they are distinguished from the sorts of numbers with which the
arithmetician deals (Metaphysics 13.
Rather they would wish to know his veracity from his words [what he says], as the learner of arithmetic knows, from arithmetic itself, the veracity of his teacher in his saying: "I am an
arithmetician.
Forsooth a great
arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine A fellow almost damned in a fair wife, That never set a squadron in the field Nor the division of battle knows More than a spinster--unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the togaed consuls can propose As masterly as he.
As a boy he was a talented
arithmetician and won a scholarship to Newcastle's Royal Grammar School.
arithmetician - someone who specializes in arithmetic