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
Alvarado, 26, holds a 3.15 ERA in 20 innings for the A’s this season and like Nunez can also hit triple digits with his fastball and throws an above average slider.
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Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
3 Aug. 2025
Or seen a series of digits, like 555, crop up in everyday contexts, such as on an address, bill, or receipt?
Left behind was a leaderboard filled with red numbers in a tournament that has a $40 million purse in official money for the top 30 players, all of them with an equal chance.
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Doug Ferguson,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Aug. 2025
For a password reset, consumers must provide the email address used to sign up, the key tag numbers assigned at sign-up and the first five digits of the credit card or bank account used to open the account.
Research shows that by reducing numerical precision from 32-bit floats to 8-bit integers (or lower), most AI applications can maintain accuracy while slashing power consumption by four to five times.
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Lee-Lean Shu,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Like Shor’s algorithm, the new approach factors integers in a reasonable amount of time.
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