numerical

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That’s 630,000 more, in numerical terms, the largest gap in records dating back to 2013 and up from 29.8% a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Professor Gareth Collins of Imperial College London attended the 2009 debate about the crater's origin and contributed the numerical simulations used in the new research.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

That’s 600,000 more, in numerical terms, up from 30% more a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

And at GCSE, there was a proposal to move to the grading system used in England and Wales, where a numerical system from 9-1 is used where 9 is the highest grade.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

It would have to be quite entertainingly written, however, since, though there’s happily a small army of readers interested in verbal niceties, relatively few are interested in similar but often more important numerical nuances.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos