numeric

as in digit
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 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. 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 
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Noun
  • Putting the sequence of digits together to create 12/12 means that there is an infinite driving force in the universe to move our hopes forward.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The tab for celebratory dinners with his extended family often approached four digits, and his paycheck as a software engineer wasn’t stretching as far as before.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Five numbers will be white balls ranging from 1 to 70.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • For example, the even integers form a subgroup within the integers.
    Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
  • 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 21 Dec. 2024.

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