arithmetic progression in English
noun
1
a sequence of numbers in which each differs from the preceding by a constant quantity (e.g., 3, 6, 9, 12, etc.; 9, 7, 5, 3, etc.).
Dutch mathematician Bartel L. van der Waerden was for one of the first to identify such a pattern among integers - one that involves arithmetic progressions in sets of numbers.
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1. For instance, the sequence 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, . . . is an arithmetic progression with common difference of 2.
2. It is questioned that thickness curves of concrete structures having uneven surface are directly derived without migrate, and depth is taken directly from ordinate in arithmetic progression.