a character used to represent a mathematical value
in addition to the standard alphabetical letters and numerics, the keyboard features rows of special characters
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Recent Examples of numericThe airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021 Reporting on inflation isn’t all that useful when the percentages tossed about like numeric salad with a light panic vinaigrette are unaccompanied by more context and comparison.—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021 The state’s overall community college and university headcount dropped by about 123,000 students — the largest numeric decrease of any state.—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021 From the insight derivation or analytics perspective, the structure provides the right data type (i.e., nominal, ordinal or numeric).—Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021 See All Example Sentences for numeric
The past few days, when temperatures have been reaching into triple digits, made the children feel as ...
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Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
30 June 2025
The heat wave hitting Baltimore, which has caused temperatures to rise to the triple digits, is projected to continue into Thursday, perhaps with afternoon storms.
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Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
25 June 2025
When the track was first certified, those numbers only included actual sales, but in the past several years, streaming activity has been added to the RIAA’s methodology.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
Bregman's Wins Above Replacement (WAR) number was 2.9.
The curriculum tackles a small number of seminal topics in each school year—like ratio and proportion or the concept of integers—and teaches these deeply from multiple angles.
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Linda Darling-Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Given that there are infinitely many positive integers of all different sizes, however, this number is minuscule compared with even larger primes.
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Rachel Crowell,
Scientific American,
16 June 2025
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