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Recent Examples of numeric
The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeric
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Notably, Dirac represents a breakthrough as the first and only quantum system to natively solve integer problems using quantum digits (qdits) rather than traditional quantum bits (qubits).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Those two titles are the only ones in the group’s discography to make it to triple digit stays on this purchases-only roster.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Yet recent research shows different numbers after people have ridden in autonomous vehicles.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
22 June 2025
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Similar numbers are reported in Jacksonville, Florida, and Round Rock, near Austin, Texas.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 June 2025
Noun
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Graphically, this can be represented a little better if ∅ symbolizes the empty set: 0 = ∅ 1 = {0} = {∅} 2 = {0, 1} = {∅, {∅}} 3 = {0, 1, 2} = {∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} Zermelo has thus laid the foundations for integers.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
9 May 2025
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The software ran an instance that forced it to convert a floating-point number into an integer.—
Korok Ray,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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