numerical

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Football reorganised around possession, positioning and numerical superiority with the ball as the centre of everything.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

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

Kühne's research group is developing advanced numerical techniques designed to be both efficient and capable of accurately reproducing the chemical and physical behavior of complex materials.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 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 did little more than make sure digits fell in the right places; it didn’t really have a numerical value of its own.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife