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
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).
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Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
Those two titles are the only ones in the group’s discography to make it to triple digit stays on this purchases-only roster.
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.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
9 May 2025
The software ran an instance that forced it to convert a floating-point number into an integer.
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