Sentence examples similar to arithmetic mistakes from inspiring English sources

"How much unemployment was caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's arithmetic mistake?" asked Dean Baker of the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, for instance.

Some fairly amateurish calculations -- note its enormous arithmetic mistake of $2 trillion -- by S&P shouldn't be affecting markets.

The effort to use authority to destroy Friedman's reputation, with no identification of a single arithmetic mistake in using their own models is reprehensible.

A good mathematician is not necessarily someone who is fast at their multiplication tables; the emphasis on arithmetic is mistaken.

(The New Democrats, too, only just passed this barrier).But what really hobbled the Alliance was its mistaken arithmetic in Ontario.

The computers fix some errors, like mistakes in arithmetic.

A whole bunch of e-mailers — and you know who you are — have sent in messages pointing out certain moronic mistakes in arithmetic that I made in in one of my after-Pennsylvania posts.

At the very end of Frege's life, he again started to work on the philosophy of mathematics, having arrived at the conclusion that one of the fundamental bases of his earlier work the attempt to found arithmetic on logic had been mistaken; but the work did not progress very far and was not published.

"All publicly funded pharma research," he said, as though correcting a mistake in elementary arithmetic.

We make the mistake of applying arithmetic and the mechanics of the economic world to the living state.

Companies surveyed by the CBI grumbled that many youngsters were unable to do the simplest mental arithmetic or to write English without spelling mistakes and grammatical blunders.