How to Use number line in a Sentence

number line

noun

• That doesn’t stop us from using the concept of a number line.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2019
• The authors believe the connection lies in lines--the timeline and the number line.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
• But such data can, at best, offer hints about how the rest of the number line might behave.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• In this way, primitive sets might comprise a hefty chunk of the number line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2022
• Consider the real numbers, which are all the points on the number line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
• Take the real numbers—all the infinitely many tick marks on the number line.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
• Take the real numbers — all the infinitely many tick marks on the number line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2021
• In the middle of the number line, around 1 and -1, there are more posit representations than floating point.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2022
• The number line was more crowded, and weirder, than anyone had imagined.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2024
• As the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2022
• But that’s like saying, there’s an infinite number of numbers in the number line.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2019
• Being able to say something more about how they’re distributed along the number line has posed an even greater challenge.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• The actual number lining the streets of Ahmedabad on Monday was well under one-tenth that amount.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• And now, for the first time, a team of researchers has found direct evidence of a mental number line in a non-human species: chickens.
  — Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 29 Jan. 2015
• As for the Senate, the numbers lined up against any possible impeachment trial are still stacked in Mr Trump’s favour.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2019
• If correct, then the placement of prime numbers along the number line never deviates too much from the prime number set.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 July 2024
• Notice that every part of the number line appears to be covered by some interval.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Like, every subset of this number line, the real number line, is either countable, or there’s a copy of the Cantor set that lives inside of it.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• This left open the question of how these infinitely many Carmichael numbers are distributed along the number line.
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• This left open the question of how these infinitely many Carmichael numbers are distributed along the number line.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Is there a set of points on that line, on the number line, which is larger than the natural numbers, larger than the rationals, but smaller than the whole line itself?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• The spacing of the number line is the most basic example of a phenomenon found throughout the field of number theory.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 May 2020
• On Wednesday, March 21, officials will review these ballots to make sure the number lines up correctly with their records.
  — Michael Boren, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Working with your mental timeline or number line, that is, may really be a spatial skill.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
• Real numbers are all the continuous numbers from the number line.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
• In the game, which is designed to strengthen the brain circuits that support number sense, the child tries to beat a cartoon opponent to the end of a number line disguised as a colorful racetrack.
  — Carlin Flora, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
• An extra vote, which seems so powerful, really only matters if the numbers line up.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• If the Riemann hypothesis is true, the Riemann zeta function explains how primes are distributed on the number line.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
• That number lines up with measurements taken of bricks and other inorganic objects measured at the time.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
• Also, in the contemplation of the number line, which embodies both the infinitely small and the infinitely large.
  — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024