the numbers
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Meghan Kobza’s “The Masquerade” unmasks the festivities of 18th-century London, where the commercial “middling sort” acquired the numbers and money to emulate the private entertainments of kings and aristocrats.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Only after crunching the numbers, interviewing experts, and analyzing all of the angles do she and her partners invest.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
More than 11 million fit notes are issued every year, with the numbers increasing since the Covid pandemic.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
On opening night, the crowd claps along to the numbers, cheering with delight at each new piece of whimsy that rolls or soars onto the floor-level stage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Modern mathematicians know that the terms have a limit; the numbers 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so forth are approaching zero as their limit.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
