Sentence examples for arithmetical ratio from inspiring English sources

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

It stated that people would inevitably produce more mouths to feed than food to feed them, since population "increases in a geometrical ratio" while "subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio".

He said, in 1798, "Population, when unchecked, increased in a geometrical ratio and subsistence for man in an arithmetical ratio". So, the population growth follows an exponential growth curve.

As naval attaché in Washington, D.C., between 1920 and 1923, he attended the Washington Conference (1921 22), in which the big powers agreed to a détente in the Pacific and fixed an arithmetical ratio of 5 5 3 for (respectively) the United States, Great Britain, and Japan on the number and total tonnage of capital (big-gun) ships that each country could possess.

For Cherwell, the main interest of the report lay not in the niceties of classifying degrees of neurosis but in a simple arithmetical ratio of tonnage and intensity to human and material strain.

Of course solving arithmetical problems in arithmetic is in some cases practically impossible.

Then Kurt Gödel proved that there exist arithmetical statements that are undecidable in Peano Arithmetic (Gödel 1931).

This model deals with an arithmetic word problem that is solved using only one arithmetical operation.

The portions (1 - 2 - 4 - 8 - 3 - 9 - 27) of the mixture, with further subdivisions according to the arithmetical, geometrical and harmonic means, are the proportions that demarcate the intervals in theoretical harmonics (1 : 2 is the ratio underlying the octave, 3 : 2 the fifth, 4 : 3 the fourth, 9 : 8 the major second, etc).

The appropriateness of the QALY arithmetical operation is compromised by the essence of the utility scale: while life-years are expressed in a ratio scale with a true zero, the utility is an interval scale where 0 is an arbitrary value for death.

He calls that arithmetical.