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 numericReporting 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 For water used for industrial purposes, the changes remove specific numeric standards for pH, chloride and hardness and replace them with a narrative description.—Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021 See All Example Sentences for numeric
After registering, your BLINK Membership number (BB + 9 digits) will serve as your access code during the ticket sale on February 27.
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Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
27 Feb. 2025
The scoreboard that hangs from the rafters at center ice inside 3M Arena at Mariucci only has two digits that show up in the season record after the final horn blows.
The dense text covered various ideas about cryptography, but Thompson (a former mathematics student) was particularly fascinated with a chapter about prime numbers, the crucial integers that make up the foundation of all computer and data coding.
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Jake Kring-Schreifels,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
People got that idea because the May paper claimed to have used a D-Wave system to factor a 50-bit RSA integer.
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