$ dash -c 'a=10; echo $((a*2))'
20

BUT:
$ dash -c 'a=10; echo $((a++))'
dash: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: "a++"

Wartan Hachaturow wrote a patch for FreeBSD's ash some time ago[1]

[1]http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=standards/52972

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