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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As he remarks, this is what we do in arithmetic when we check additions by subtraction , and viceversa.
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But the second cat ran away, an early lesson in subtraction for Jack.
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However some important operations may take us outside the realm of the natural numbers-the simplest being subtraction .
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It makes perfect sense, simple addition and subtraction , but no one figured the tracking speed into the equation.
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Surviving examples of his newsletters show that they were often produced in multiple copies, with additions or subtractions as appropriate.
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The purpose is to reinforce the basic operations of addition, subtraction , multiplication and division.
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This, again, aids the process of mental subtraction .
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Whether they all cancel out to give a theory that is finite without any infinite subtractions is not yet known.