How to Use number line in a Sentence
number line
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The number line was more crowded, and weirder, than anyone had imagined.
— Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Their paper shows the non-surprising result that playing a game on a number line improves preschoolers’ performance on a task of approximating the position of a number on the line.
— James Freeman, WSJ, 3 May 2022
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