Sentence examples for rules of arithmetic from inspiring English sources
The rules of arithmetic are the same, whether you use a slide rule or a supercomputer.
"Most students have serious challenges remembering the basic rules of arithmetic," Dr. Ianni said of his remedial math class.
Doug Turetsky, a spokesman for the Independent Budget Office, a nonpartisan city agency, said groups caught in the annual wrangling are the victims of a budgetary process where conventional rules of arithmetic do not always apply.
As the economist Paul Krugman has repeatedly pointed out in his Times column, congressional Republicans these days seem to think that they can override not just the laws of physics but also the rules of arithmetic.
Unlike other tests of non-conscious processing, this wasn't an automatic response to a stimulus – it required a precise answer following the rules of arithmetic, which you might have assumed would only come with deliberation.
A second, relatively early, ancestor of contemporary functionalism is Hobbes's (1651) account of reasoning as a kind of computation that proceeds by mechanistic principles comparable to the rules of arithmetic.
Mr. Sullivan called the whole thing "a historic occasion," & suggested that if Mr. Roosevelt had the power to change the almanac, he might also have the power to change the rule of arithmetic by which two plus two makes four.
The multiplication table and the rules of elementary arithmetic represent something which needs human intervention to be carried out on paper, but this human intervention follows certain inhumanly rigid and memorized laws.
The mixed-mode oscillations follow the rules of Farey arithmetic and the circuits' dynamics is of a fractal nature.
The rules of genetic arithmetic make some things certain, rule out others completely and often supply probabilities that are good enough for what you need.
Although it is consistent, many of the common rules of decimal arithmetic no longer hold, for example the fraction 1/3 has no representation; see "[[#Alternative number systems|Alternative number systems]]" below.
