Sentence examples for arithmetic progression from inspiring English sources

In other words, they form a three-term arithmetic progression.

ii) An arithmetic progression (often taken modulo some suitable number) is beautiful.

In number theory, an arithmetic progression is a sequence of numbers that proceeds in steps of the same amount.

In a real farce, the protagonist lies to save his skin; his duplicity multiplies by an arithmetic progression until he's driven almost out of his mind by self-consciousness.

The increase of population will take place, if unchecked, in a geometric progression, while the means of subsistence will increase in only an arithmetic progression.

They devised a technique for computing these positions (expressed in terms of degrees of latitude and longitude, measured relative to the path of the Sun's apparent annual motion) by successively adding appropriate terms in arithmetic progression.

This is based on observation ii) about arithmetic progressions.

Four of them were already arithmetic progressions mod 5.

A favourite result is the representation of arithmetic progressions in the form of "polygonal numbers".

One of his most noted contributions to mathematics is a theorem about arithmetic progressions.

So labelings 3.1 and 3.4 were arithmetic progressions mod 4 (in general, mod n+1).