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Recent Examples of numeric
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeric
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The biggest digit, of course, is the $16 million annually Harbaugh was awarded on a five-year deal to flip L.A.’s woeful script.Jay Paris, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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The 23-year-old ace has a fastball in the triple digits and multiple swing-and-miss offspeed pitches.Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Five numbers will be white balls ranging from 1 to 70.Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Those numbers have become typical in Bentonville, where enrollment is up nearly 10% since 2019 and more than 25% since 2014.NWA Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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For example, the even integers form a subgroup within the integers.Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
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Such declarations are used to indicate whether a data element is meant to hold a Boolean (true/false) value, a byte, a 32-bit integer, a 64-bit integer, a 32-bit floating-point number, a 64-bit floating-point number, or various other possibilities.Adrian Sampson, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2013
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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