While battles are absolutely gripping for the players involved, they leave everyone else at the table with nothing to do until the fight is resolved, and with a bit of mental arithmetic involved in calculating the outcome, it can cause the game to drag.
(A quick bit of arithmetic proves this to be more or less true.
First of all, there's a simple bit of arithmetic.
He also wrote many articles in the popular press; in those published in Butrus al-Bustani's journal al-Jinan, he showed himself favourable to women's education, which he restricted however to reading, writing, and a little bit of arithmetic, geography and grammar.
No matter the device or the price, I rapidly learned, there's always an eye-popping bit of arithmetic from the salesman involving leasing, deposits and treatment payment plans, plus a decent dollop of wishful thinking, which arrives smoothly, almost imperceptibly, at "££££".
For that, it's useful to do a bit of back-of-the-envelope arithmetic and convert them into an estimate of the number of workers who have gone "missing" from the labor force, for whatever reason.
No. Perhaps that's only to be expected from a methodology that involves looking at polls and poll averages, scrutinizing campaign stories, sounding out campaign officials, and occasionally doing a bit of back-of the-envelope arithmetic.
Using a bit of imagination and some simple arithmetic, Hubble ran the explosion backwards in his mind and calculated that the pin on the grenade had been pulled about 2 billion years ago.
