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Examples of counting number in a Sentence
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But Seager has put together a monstrous offensive season despite his two stints on the injured list and may have been the outright frontrunner for the AL MVP award if his counting numbers hadn’t taken a hit due to missed games.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2023
The raw counting numbers on their own are pretty good.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
More Deep Math Why Euler’s Number Is Cool as Hell The Game of Trees Is a Mad Math Problem The Amazing Math Inside the Rubik’s Cube The problem itself may sound quite straightforward, because the counting numbers and the study of mathematics are thousands of years old.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
And imagine that your available denominators are the counting numbers 1 to 10.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2019
The conjecture predicts that there are infinitely many such pairs among the counting numbers, or integers.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2019
To construct a finite field, start by extracting a finite subset of numbers from the counting numbers.
—Wired, 29 Sep. 2019
Citizen scientists in Alaska counted numbers that reached 1,000 times more than normal for their beaches.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1965, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of counting number was
circa 1965
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“Counting number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counting%20number. Accessed 16 May. 2024.
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