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a character used to represent a mathematical value a birthday candle in the shape of the numeral 4

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Recent Examples of numeral But calculation with Roman numerals is incredibly complicated and cumbersome. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025 This is Super Bowl LIX That’s 59 in Roman numerals. Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 Add some Roman numerals and keep it the same until the inevitable meta-reboot. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2025 The scientists thus proceeded to assign different combinations of bubble shape, size and depth to different English letters and Arabic numerals in Morse, binary, and ternary codes. New Atlas, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for numeral
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Noun
  • Charlotte weekend forecast Temperatures will reach up to about 95 degrees in Charlotte Saturday, with the heat index reaching into triple digits, the NWS forecast says.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 19 July 2025
  • The file was converted from binary format into hexadecimal, an encoding scheme that uses the digits 0 through 9 and the letters A through F to represent binary values in a compact combination of characters.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • The total number of calls does not necessarily indicate there were 246 incidents, as some incidents can create more than one entry, if there are multiple calls or dispatches to an incident, for example.
    Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
  • From the 1980s to the 2010s, a series of mergers and new ventures doubled the number of taxi companies to six: Yellow (merged with Roy’s), Austin (merged with Harlem), American, Texas, Lone Star and Checker.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 29 July 2025

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“Numeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeral. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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