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• I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the… — Henri Poincare
• When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,… — Charles Lyell
• You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an… — George Bernard Shaw
• Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as… — John von Neumann
• Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the… — Plato
• Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers… — Thomas Malthus
• The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in… — Friedrich List
• It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants. — Unknown Author
• In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been… — Unknown Author
• The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably… — Howard Aiken
• The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas. — David Hilbert
• Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to… — Ada Lovelace

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