In technical analysis of financial data, a "'weighted moving average "'( WMA ) has the specific meaning of weights that decrease in arithmetical progression.
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The innermost scales of the instrument are called the Arithmetic Lines from their division in arithmetical progression, that is, by equal additions which proceed out to the number 250.
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:EXAMPLE : In the measure of temperature, we take the expansion and contraction of mercury relative to the heat it contains as a Quantitative Rule for the increase or decrease of temperature in general by dividing the range of its change in magnitude into a scale of arithmetical progression.
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He was thus led to conclude that chemistry is a branch of applied mathematics and to endeavour to trace a law according to which the quantities of different bases required to saturate a given acid formed an arithmetical progression, and the quantities of acids saturating a given base a geometric progression.
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:[ According to al-Masudi's early history of India ], shatranj, or chess was invented under an Indian king, who expressed his preference for this game over backgammon . [ . . . ] The Indians, he adds, also calculated an arithmetical progression with the squares of the chessboard . [ . . . ] The early fondness of the Indians for enormous calculations is well known to students of their mathematics, and is exemplified in the writings of the great astronomer ryabamha ( born 476 A . D . ) . [ . . . ] An additional argument for the Indian origin of this calculation is supplied by the Arabic name for the square of the chessboard, ( ( J * , " beit " ),'house'. [ . . . ] For this has doubtless a historical connection with its Indian designation kocmhgra,'store-house','granary'[ . . . ].