Arithmetic

Japanese: arithmetic
Arithmetic

...Therefore, arithmetic often means such elementary mathematics. On the other hand, the word arithmetic is sometimes used as a translation of arithmetic (originally meaning to count). Since the word arithmetic is used in a much broader sense than its original meaning, the arithmetic in words of the form arithmetic something has a meaning quite different from elementary mathematics, such as an arithmetic progression being an arithmetic progression and the arithmetic mean being the arithmetic mean. ...

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Japanese:

…そのため,算術というのは,そのような初等数学を意味することが多い。一方,arithmetic(原義は数えること)の訳語として算術という言葉を用いることがある。arithmeticという語は原義よりずっと広い意味に用いられるので,算術何々という形の語の算術は,算術級数は等差級数,算術平均は相加平均というように,初等数学とはだいぶ異なる意味をもつ。…

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