Presidential campaigns had their own calendar: a series of special days, sprinkled throughout the year, determined by certain arcane astrological formulae.
The very idea of natural law treats the world as divine Scripture in which events are sorted into patterns and coded in arcane formulas.
The first was that upon graduation from college, I would be entitled to annual payments based on an arcane formula involving capital gains, dividends, and inflation.
After five years, the units convert back into Bear Stearns stock, using an arcane formula tied to company earnings before taxes.
Sayer claimed to possess an arcane mathematical formula, learned from a German professor he encountered in Iraq.
Besides, you probably have some arcane mathematical formula at your fingertips.
Krong had a few favorites that he liked to rotate through based on some arcane formula known only to him.
Players can equip artifacts, which are made with powerful arcane formulas.
It is easy enough to find critics of the arcane formula by which the state supports districts, starting with the court itself.
Perhaps there existed some arcane formula for getting back his humanity.