But that is also its strength: it's easy for readers to understand, and to do the arithmetic for their own schools if they'd like.
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柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
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算術
Arithmetic is the part of mathematics that is concerned with the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of numbers.
例句
...teaching the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.教授閱讀、寫作和算術的基礎知識...an arithmetic test.算術測驗
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演算；計算
You can use arithmetic to refer to the process of doing a particular sum or calculation.
例句
4,000 women put in ten rupees each, which if my arithmetic is right adds up to 40,000 rupees.4,000名婦女每人放入10個盧比，如果我算得對的話，總數將達到4萬盧比。
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（某形勢的）數據統計
If you refer to the arithmetic of a situation, you are concerned with those aspects of it that can be expressed in numbers, and how they affect the situation.
例句
The budgetary arithmetic suggests that government borrowing is set to surge...預算數字表明政府借款將要大幅增加。The arithmetic is finely balanced: the socialists and their allies do not have an overall majority.該估算是經過仔細權衡的：社會主義者和他們的同盟并不占絕大多數。
ADJ
算術的;運算的
Arithmetic means relating to or consisting of calculations involving numbers.
例句
...a processor which performs simple arithmetic operations such as adding or multiplying numbers.可進行加法或乘法等簡單運算的處理器
英漢詞典釋義
n.
算術
He is good at arithmetic.他擅長算術。
計算
The waiter got his arithmetic wrong.服務員算錯了賬。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations