The phrase "arithmetical calculation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of performing mathematical operations to derive a numerical result.
Example: "The arithmetical calculation of the total expenses revealed a significant overspend."
Alternatives: "mathematical computation" or "numerical calculation".
What it reflects, though, is an arithmetical calculation based on two numbers: the shrinking labour force just described; and the slow annual growth in productivity in the 1990s of about 2%, a whole percentage point less than in the 1980s.
The shift began with the introduction of the electronic calculator in the 1960s, which rendered obsolete the need for humans to master the ancient art of mental arithmetical calculation.
Arithmetical calculation is executed everywhere in our daily life, for example, statistics of population in the government, management of financial affairs in a company, and calculation of the sum of price at a grocery store.
He had a passion, my aunts and uncles told me, for intricate arithmetical calculations, which he would do in his head, while lying in the bath.
Once again, the world can be divided in two, which is at least a relief to thought, division by two being one of the simplest arithmetical calculations.
Most ancient systems, such as the Egyptian, Roman, Hebrew, and Greek numeral systems, did not have a positional characteristic, and this complicated arithmetical calculations.
(Some of my uncles could still remember this). He had a passion, my aunts and uncles told me, for intricate arithmetical calculations, which he would do in his head, while lying in the bath.
Hence it is not surprising to find that although a computer can accurately and rapidly do long and intricate arithmetical calculations, a task at which human beings are rather poor, human beings can recognize patterns in ways no contemporary computer can begin to approach.
Today's surprise, for instance, is the use of DNA to do exact arithmetical calculations entirely in analog.
It is also a commonly expressed view that Artificial Intelligence ideas only occurred to pioneers in the 1950s after the success of computers in large arithmetical calculations.
If the parties do eventually cobble together a deal, no doubt some spin doctor will be able to baffle me with arithmetical calculations.
