In dictionaries:
by the numbers
Strictly according to established procedures.
the law of large numbers
run the numbers
The Who by Numbers
the seventh studio album by English rock band the Who, released on 3 October 1975 in the United Kingdom through Polydor Records, and on 6 October 1975 in the United States by MCA Records.
Completeness of the real numbers
Completeness is a property of the real numbers that, intuitively, implies that there are no "gaps" (in Dedekind's terminology) or "missing points" in the real number line.
Construction of the real numbers
In mathematics, there are several equivalent ways of defining the real numbers.
The Numbers Station
a 2013 American action thriller film, starring John Cusack and Malin Åkerman, about a burned-out CIA black ops agent assigned to protect the code operator at a secret American numbers station somewhere in the British countryside.
The Magic Numbers
an English alternative rock band consisting of two brother-and-sister pairs, from Hanwell in west London.
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