Sentence examples for bad arithmetic from inspiring English sources

But even I never dreamed that a large part of the alleged result might reflect nothing more profound than bad arithmetic.

In several cases described in the report, poor penmanship, careless listening or bad arithmetic caused patients to get doses 10 or even 50 times as high as they should.

After all, haven't economists proved that economic growth collapses once public debt exceeds 90 percent of G.D.P.? Well, the famous red line on debt, it turns out, was an artifact of dubious statistics, reinforced by bad arithmetic.

And the evidence for their fakery isn't just their bad arithmetic; it's the fact that for all their alleged deep concern over budget gaps, that concern isn't sufficient to induce them to give up anything — anything at all — that they and their financial backers want.

Tunisia may have missed out on its first medal at the London Olympics because of bad arithmetic.

The Senate partially corrects this bad arithmetic – and economics – by allowing subsidies to vary somewhat by income.

Our limited working memory means we're bad at arithmetic, and so no one does long division anymore.

Nice rhetorical device; too bad about the arithmetic.

Often, little in the way of independent thought is brought to bear on the "burgers plus big companies equals bad" style of arithmetic.

Calculations by scientists, who are forever totting up times but are often bad at mental arithmetic, will also be much easier if they can just move decimal points instead of multiplying and dividing.Long-distance travel will become simpler with decimalisation.

We reduce education to reading, writing, and arithmetic, and this is bad development.