I Used to Know That; Maths - Extract
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arithmetic. Arithmetic is the basic everyday manipulation of numbers. Every time you work out how long it is until you finish work, check your change or guiltily calculate how many units of alcohol you've consumed this week you're doing arithmetic to a mathematician. Arithmetic is where you perform an operation on two or more numbers. Thes operations, a commonly called addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on arithmetic as a whole falls into two categories. That stuff you do in your head or on your fingers. Mental arithmetic on the stuff he did on paper at school. But now I do on a calculator, which will call paper arithmetic.