numerical

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1. numerical - Noun

2. numerical - Adjective

3. numerical - Adjective Satellite

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Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as, numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical statement.

The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical; as, the same numerical body.

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Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. Carl von Clausewitz

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result. James Clerk Maxwell

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. Howard Gardner

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. John Tukey

You have to admit, half the people who work here are mildly autistic; poor social skills, the ability to obsess on anything numerical or repetitive, the odd outfits, the paranoia and the sense of continually being judged and measured. Douglas Coupland

The numerical side of the theory of relativity is derived from the failure of all attempts to detect the relative motion of matter and ether. Herbert Dingle

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