number line
nounDefinition of number line
: a line of infinite extent whose points correspond to the real numbers according to their distance in a positive or negative direction from a point arbitrarily taken as zero
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On a number line, the eigenvalues seemed to exhibit a somewhat regular spacing — never clustered together nor spread too far apart. — Quanta Magazine, "Universal Pattern Explains Why Materials Conduct," 6 May 2019 Once all symbols have been encoded, the system uses a long binary string (something like 0.1010010100111010110...) to represent the exact point on the number line corresponding to the encoded string. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain," 10 June 2018 That number lines up with measurements taken of bricks and other inorganic objects measured at the time. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "New Study Shows Full Extent of Radiation Damage to Hiroshima Victims," 1 May 2018 And much, much more, which fittingly became known as the surreal numbers — the largest possible expansion of the real-number line — named as such by the Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth. — Quanta Magazine, "A Life in Games," 28 Aug. 2015 On a number line, the eigenvalues seemed to exhibit a somewhat regular spacing — never clustered together nor spread too far apart. — Quanta Magazine, "Universal Pattern Explains Why Materials Conduct," 6 May 2019 The overall number lines up well with estimates from previous studies, even though it was derived independently. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "What 61,000 hidden structures reveal about Maya civilization," 28 Sep. 2018 Once all symbols have been encoded, the system uses a long binary string (something like 0.1010010100111010110...) to represent the exact point on the number line corresponding to the encoded string. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain," 10 June 2018 That number lines up with measurements taken of bricks and other inorganic objects measured at the time. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "New Study Shows Full Extent of Radiation Damage to Hiroshima Victims," 1 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'number line.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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