"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

If funds must be reallocated from the 1990 account, it should be done on a considered basis, not according to an arbitrary figure.

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Mr Shannon alleged his place on the year-long economic and social history course was withdrawn due to the "arbitrary figure" the college had set.

BBC: Damien Shannon

In fact, 10, 000 barrels provided to be an arbitrary enough figure it was not much later changed to 15, 000 (where it remains today).

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