Examples of whole number in a Sentence
since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers, the total will not be exactly equal to 100%
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Going up one whole number on the scale indicates the ground motion recorded by seismic equipment increased by a factor of 10.
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
The Saros, then, is just a nice round interval during which all these cycles repeat a whole number of times: 223 passes through the new moon is almost exactly equal to 242 laps in and out of the ecliptic, which is in turn almost exactly equal to 239 oscillations in the moon’s apparent size.
—Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Each pair of planets completes their orbits in times that are the ratios of whole numbers, allowing the planets to align and exert a gravitational push and pull on the other during their orbit.
—Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
Mathematicians cannot determine whether multiplying pi by itself repeatedly might produce a whole number
By Manon Bischoff
Pi (π) is probably the most famous number in mathematics.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
Data in the thousands were rounded to whole numbers while numbers in the millions were rounded to the first decimal point.
—Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
In light of the expulsion of the gentleman from New York, Mr. Santos, the whole number of the House is now 434.
—CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
But as the stylebook notes, a workweek or other labor schedule could be viewed in whole numbers.
—WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
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Introduction
For the sieve of Eratosthenes, this estimate depends on how often whole numbers are divisible by 2, or 3, or 5, and so on — comparatively easy information to obtain.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
The Saros, then, is just a nice round interval during which all these cycles repeat a whole number of times: 223 passes through the new moon is almost exactly equal to 242 laps in and out of the ecliptic, which is in turn almost exactly equal to 239 oscillations in the moon’s apparent size.
—Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Each pair of planets completes their orbits in times that are the ratios of whole numbers, allowing the planets to align and exert a gravitational push and pull on the other during their orbit.
—Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
Mathematicians cannot determine whether multiplying pi by itself repeatedly might produce a whole number
By Manon Bischoff
Pi (π) is probably the most famous number in mathematics.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
Data in the thousands were rounded to whole numbers while numbers in the millions were rounded to the first decimal point.
—Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
In light of the expulsion of the gentleman from New York, Mr. Santos, the whole number of the House is now 434.
—CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
But as the stylebook notes, a workweek or other labor schedule could be viewed in whole numbers.
—WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
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Introduction
For the sieve of Eratosthenes, this estimate depends on how often whole numbers are divisible by 2, or 3, or 5, and so on — comparatively easy information to obtain.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whole%20number. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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