Definition of Arithmetic

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Definition of Arithmetic
	Arithmetic The science of numbers; the art of computation by figures. A book containing the principles of this science. Related Definitions: Art, Book, By, Computation, Containing, Numbers, Of, Science, The, This

Arithmetic Quotations

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
Sydney Smith

God does arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Annie Dillard

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Susan George

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
John McCarthy

Arithmetic Translations

arithmetic in Dutch is rekenkunde, cijferkunst, cijferen
arithmetic in German is Arithmetik {f}, arithmetisch, Rechenart, rechnen
arithmetic in Swedish is mattematik, aritmetik

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