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/ˌæɹɪθmˈɛtɪkli/
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ADVERB
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with respect to arithmetic
this problem is arithmetically easy
How To Use arithmetically In A Sentence
- This of course is arithmetically impossible: no one can contribute more than 100%.
- this problem is arithmetically easy
- This latter statement may also be expressed as follows: The strength of a stimulus must increase geometrically if the strength of the apperceived sensation is to increase arithmetically. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
- Unhindered reproduction, he said, causes the population to increase 'geometrically' ( 'exponentially', we say now), while the means of subsistence increases only arithmetically. Bill Totten's Weblog
- Arithmetically nothing's happened - five seats lost here, six gained there, but the great blocs of party power are still intact.
- He thought it would be ineffective because he had formulated the hypothesis that population increases geometrically while food supplies increase arithmetically.