Meanings of arithmetical calculations in English

Seldom could the young engineer rise from his arithmetical calculations until midnight.

A series of arithmetical calculations was interspersed by blocks of text.

I had made some arithmetical calculations of probabilities, which I wished to test.

M. d'Alembert had been requested to be present as an expert in arithmetical calculations.

He was, to use a common expression, 'carried off his feet' by arithmetical calculations.

In various languages, too, we find relics of ancient modes of thought in the simplest words and expressions used for arithmetical calculations.

His partner in penury, the miser, was seated at an old oak table making arithmetical calculations upon a bit of broken slate.

Bishop Colenso also questions the arithmetical calculations of the historians in regard to the conquest of the Midianites, as described in the book of Numbers.

There is the example of the famous Munito, who in 1818 perplexed the Parisians by his cleverness with playing cards and his intricate arithmetical calculations.

According to the theory of the Duke of Argyll, men ages ago used pebbles (CALCULI) in performing the simplest arithmetical calculations because we to-day "CALCULATE."

''Abacus'' is also the name of an instrument employed by the ancients for arithmetical calculations; pebbles, hits of bone or coins being used as counters.