numerator
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This helps the numerator by adding newly converted revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Staff excluded from the efficacy calculation patients who had RP1 injected in all of their tumors, but only from the numerator and not denominator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Their concern, however, stems from the level of the numerator rather than the sustainability of the denominator.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Note that the plunging ratio tells us nothing about the U.S. economy, since the economy affects both the numerator and the denominator of the ratio and therefore has no net effect on its level.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
All of these expressions, but especially 0/0, could take on any value you desire them to have, depending on the functions you put in the numerator and denominator.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
But you have so many numerators in this case that need to be overhauled, need to be fixed.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
We introduced rational numbers, which are just fractions where the numerators and denominators are integers.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Simplify only after you have combined the numerators.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
We’ll use the methods we have learned to factor the polynomials in the numerators and denominators in the following examples.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Then ab+c2=denominator, and a2-c2, b2-c2, and a2-b2 will be the three numerators.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
Vocabulary lists containing numerator
Arithmetic
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Number and Operations: Fractions
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Numbers and Arithmetic
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