Of course, I could read the numbers on the coins, but that was not the same as understanding the values. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They lived in ease and comfort supported by huge numbers of blacks whom they kept in poverty and held in contempt. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday morning I pull out the numbers I’ve collected for the Pet Hut. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No question about it, some people want those higher numbers,” Shepard Krech III, an anthropologist at Brown, told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mama’s betting on the numbers, her chasing dreams, was out of control, and he knew it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She says, “I had a student in another school who told me all the even numbers are yellow and the odd ones are blue. Some people say they can smell a color. Or hear one.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Gogol had been asked to write numbers on squares of paper, one set to tape onto the gifts and another to pass around, folded up in a drawstring pouch, to the guests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lucky numbers were on one side, just like they always are, and the learn Chinese message told me that in Chinese, winter is dong tian. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In Pennsylvania fish have been killed in numbers by endrin, used in orchards to combat mice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The six numbers to dial are in my head. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a matter of common experience that one can describe the position of a point in space by three numbers, or coordinates. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the Greek number system was more sophisticated than the Egyptian system, it was not the most advanced way of writing numbers in the ancient world. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Eliza made a noise in her throat and squinted at the house numbers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to feed the world’s insatiable demand for cotton goods, he said, every picker’s daily quota will be increased by a percentage determined by their numbers from the previous harvest. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

You got posters and emergency phone numbers for suicide prevention hot lines posted all over the building today. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though to harmonize with the general mood, the rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers of people than usual. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The problem nevertheless exists and it affects significant numbers of the population. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Most numbers I memorized, but I had always made it some point never to memorize her number. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wolves and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than ants, but they can do so only with small numbers of other individuals that they know intimately. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me three phone numbers: her father; her oldest brother, Lawrence; and her brother David Jr.’s pager. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was afraid of the numbers above two. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And what have you done with your tag numbers?” the man shouted, flecks of spittle flying from his lips. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

That is how Mr. Edwards happened to be interviewing and recruiting numbers of girls instead of picking one up here and there. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some people play the same numbers every day, like a religion. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could play this game, he understood it like he understood the numbers. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Why do department stores or suburban water companies find it necessary to assign account numbers with twenty or more symbols? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sarah, can you get the phone numbers of Nia and Aaron out of my cell? And look through the recent missed calls for something from Manhattan; I have to call my science teacher.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I mean, I wasn’t sick or anything, but I was standing perfectly still, frozen as a Popsicle, counting prime numbers in my head. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dial the first random numbers that come to my mind. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But about Billy, it’s not his imagination. Other people see letters and numbers in color. I do, in fact.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I told them that he had two numbers, one for at home and one which was a mobile phone, and I said both of them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Welles responded by slowing down the first part even more and stretching out the musical numbers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

So he challenged Mary’s numbers, insisting that her calculations were wrong. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A charismatic eleventh-grade geometry teacher stoked her interest in math, and for the first time, she entertained the idea of a future that took advantage of her knack for numbers and all things analytical. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I just went through the motions, rigidly, by the numbers, without any heart or real emotion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She puts the checkbook down and cups her chin with one hand; the other hand punches numbers into a calculator. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Most others believe that recent Mexican immigrants will eventually take their place in society, and perhaps someday muster political clout commensurate with their numbers, though significant impediments are slowing their progress. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Others build a whole superstition around it, looking for numbers all over the place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t visit the Pet Hut just for the numbers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, the last three numbers of the post office’s new Zip Code for a postal district of Harlem hit, and one banker almost went broke. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only have numbers swirling in my head. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Red and blue stripes, and purple circles with numbers in them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It's parked in front of a tan building with the number 345 in white scrolled numbers on the glass door entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The letters and numbers are neat and careful, like they were drawn by a child expecting to be graded. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Indians were here far longer than previously thought, these researchers believe, and in much greater numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He was a numbers guy like you, son. Spent fifty years as an accountant.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

When she left home, only the wealthy had cell phones, all the numbers started with 090, and girls wanted to date 090 men. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the other words and numbers I don’t understand. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sphere was constructed from five concentric rings, each inscribed with zodiac symbols—the bull, the scorpion, et cetera—and seemingly random numbers and letters. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The success of the Montgomery bus boycott encouraged growing numbers of civil rights activists, black and white, to challenge laws that enforced segregation. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Taken by surprise and overwhelmed by sheer numbers, the Peacekeepers were initially overcome by the crowds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This, in brief, is how the system works: the War on Drugs is a vehicle through which extraordinary numbers of black men are forced into the cage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Thirteen numbers, same as the phone number on the clue,” she said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Your counselors here at school know these numbers and should have had them available for you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had quickly increased their numbers, until now there were 16,000. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The picture on the screen is a complicated mass of lines and numbers, with certain parts selected in yellow and red. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

These are big increases, but they are also still tiny, tiny numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And some have charged that the claims advance the political agenda of those who seek to discredit European culture, because the high numbers seem to inflate the scale of native loss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Emma felt like she was trying to solve some huge math problem that didn’t involve numbers but people and events: The kidnapped kids in Arizona. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All I need is two room numbers, then I can get out of here. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of malignant tumors are discovered clinically in children under the age of five, but it is an even grimmer fact that significant numbers of such growths are present at or before birth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Time doesn't fly—it flaps, the numbers turning on a wheel that operates much like the gears on a stretching rack. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Though Jelly Roll called a lot of his numbers ‘Blues’, we now know this as the beginning of a distinct genre of its own: jazz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Their numbers would continue to swell, one hoped; more ships were straggling in every day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m scared to look at all the numbers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician of the seventh century, gave rules for dividing numbers by each other, and he included the negatives. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was, instead, a blackboard, covered with words and numbers written in white chalk. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Get the bloods first — we have to have those numbers. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced back, watching as he used the blunt end of her pencil to follow lines of numbers on the page. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There’s an alphabet strip at the top, so I can spell out words, and a row of numbers under that, so I can count or say how many or talk about time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

While some of these groups boasted large memberships, the suffragists questioned the numbers reported by the antis. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some women did indeed spend their days in rote service to the day’s task, plotting data with blithe indifference, routing torrents of numbers as nonchalantly as the calculating machines they cradled. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So these chords have both names and numbers that tell how they fit into the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They included all the numbers from one to nine, and even an assortment of zeros. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at Matilde’s message, the neat, round letters and numbers that I already know by heart. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then imaginary numbers are represented by a line going up and down the page, with i, 2i, etc. above the middle, and —i, —2i, etc. below. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian system of numbering allowed them to use fancy tricks to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers without using an abacus to help them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He keys the microphone and reads the numbers, then the messages. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Habib stepped forward and squinted at the row of numbers printed on its side. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was either sleeping in the shade of the canoe or running up and down the sandspit chasing the pelicans that roost there in great numbers because there are numerous fish nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is because zero is different from the other numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The mixture of letters, numbers, and symbols was like no language Malcolm had ever seen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They ripped off their numbers and barricaded themselves in their cells. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Check out the sections for numbers the cards wouldn’t give us.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I write answers in the boxes, numbers marching easily down the side of my worksheet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He looked at the dashboard of the plane, studied the dials and hoped to get some help, hoped to find a compass, but it was all so confusing, a jumble of numbers and lights. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Diamant worked rows of numbers in her book, observing, and when I scooted over a bottle of soda water, there were two brown eyes staring at me from the other side of the shelves. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Then, Herbert, estimate; estimate it in round numbers, and put it down.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the store with the numbers in my vest pocket, I decide to steal a few more minutes and make my calls on company time from the pay phone near layaway. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mask, flight, numbers in the millions producing numbers in the millions? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first is the law of large numbers, one of the most significant though often misunderstood theorems in probability theory, and one which people sometimes invoke to justify all sorts of bizarre conclusions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was supposed to be your son, Simon. When I called, he remembered, but he’d already made other plans. There was no answer at the other numbers.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But the final numbers were hardly set in stone. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"But I can't always be sure. The numbers change. Girls go missing." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Over the next few months, our numbers swelled as refugees poured in from other Sudanese towns. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite European guns, the Indians’ greater numbers, entrenched positions, knowledge of the terrain, and superb archery made them formidable adversaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To form the plurals of abbreviations and numbers, add s alone, but to form the plural of a single letter, add s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first her questions were legitimate enough: Arithmetic, spelling, languages, geography, and the sort of purposeful confusion—about ringing numbers and underlining words—in which some psychologists place particular store. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrong numbers and crossed lines happen all the time. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Chinese speakers get that list of numbers — 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6—right almost every time because, unlike English, their language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It is a number, manipulated like other numbers, which means that it is differentiated from nothing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a small drawing of a black bird in front of a bridge and ocean waves, and a short string of numbers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To draft a telegram, you wrote down the numbers for each character you wanted, and then you sent the string of numbers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lots of other numbers are covered by that carpet, but we don’t have to worry about that. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I just told him that me and Janine exchanged phone numbers. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Numbers flowed through my head, prime numbers, times tables, pi to as many digits as I knew. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the important mammal species hunted for meat, the gazelle, originally lived in huge herds but was overexploited by the growing human population and reduced to low numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the living room, looking at cartoons in old numbers of the Review of Reviews. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arithmetic wasn’t so bad—numbers lined up in an order that made sense to her. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She wants to rescue animals, but she has to think about the numbers, too. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We will be having new opportunities to learn more about the physiology of death at first hand, from the increasing numbers of cardiac patients who have been through the whole process and then back again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero was so important to the new set of numbers that people started calling all numbers ciphers, which gave the French their term chiffre, digit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Sure, it can be all heart bursting and undeniable and Bollywood dance numbers and meet me at the Empire State Building. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There are a great many ways, and more all the time, to put numbers on what occurs inside a school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was another list of phone numbers in my mother’s handwriting. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a place where the great panacea of school integration had turned into a numbers game in which the blacks and the Hispanics ended up paying the greater price. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the buildings are identical—brown brick with dark windows—and they have numbers on their sides. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Leo pulled a calculator out of his tool belt and punched in some numbers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I asked, because the numbers nine, five, and eight meant nothing to me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Your numbers were chosen to fit this remarkable total: One Gross, if I may use the expression. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know you can get cards with big numbers on them for people with bad eyesight. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iron monsters sprinted in our direction, and though they were still some ways away, I could tell their numbers were greater than before, back in the Drowned Forest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The pair of cabins at the head of the field, numbers one and two, looked like his-and-hers mausoleums, big white marble boxes with heavy columns in front. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually she came to the numbers that indicated the hexagram she was being given, the group of six broken or unbroken lines, and then she looked up the meaning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now instead of scores they post only district numbers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It also shows that Mr. Jeavons was wrong and numbers are sometimes very complicated and not very straightforward at all. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of using pictures to represent numbers as the Egyptians did, the Greeks used letters. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was able to file all the numbers in his head, and write them down for the banker only when he turned in his money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many educated people have little grasp for these numbers and are even unaware that a million is 1.000. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By using numbers rather than names when we compile our diary, I think they’ll feel more comfortable and it will probably be safer for all of us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Turtle returned to her calculations, multiplying numbers of shares times price, adding a broker's commission, trying to total the sums to the ten thousand dollars they had to spend. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he goes on to say what a punk Stephen is and that kids are starting to speak out in bigger numbers. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hope the Erudite didn’t think to change this combination,” he says as he types in a series of numbers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Five hundred dollars, his driver’s license, phone numbers on slips of paper, social security card, airline ticket stub, cleaners receipts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imaginary numbers never appeared in linear equations, but they began to crop up in quadratic ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I can do numbers in my head,” he said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

André, using his copy of the book, would decode the numbers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took most of the walk across campus before I understood what she’d said, then I checked my course schedule and, for the first time, noticed the numbers next to the course names. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then new arrivals would come in, only to add to the numbers of doomed birds seen on the campus in the agonized tremors that precede death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Francis looked for numbers on the mailboxes, nosing into one false trail after another and backing out again, cursing, grinding the gears. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You guys! I found a whole bunch of new numbers!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I have the final numbers for the fourth sector of the Wonder Dome in Dewey mode,” Dr. Zinchenko said into her Bluetooth earpiece. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers over the brass body of the machine, feeling the vibrating hum of the gears working, and the indentations of the numbers that will soon fill with light to reveal my levels. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

People getting off work bought boxes of pasta and cans of beans, or they played their numbers in the lottery. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He loved numbers and what they did and even how they looked, and sometimes he couldn’t figure out why the rest of us didn’t love them as much as he did. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I try to suck in as much air as I possibly can, coughing desperately as I flip open a keypad, my hands shaking too much to type in the numbers. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At about six Fm supposed to call two motels charging only $40 a day, where something may have opened up, but I realize I’ve left the phone numbers in the car. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a three-by-three grid and the numbers one to nine, the solution was always fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I’m ready to go. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We went out to where they posted the numbers and the bell rang to pay off and they put up 18.50 after Japalac to win. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can report this because I have a map before me, but what I remember has no reference to the numbers and colored lines and squiggles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, primitive languages evolved to distinguish between one, two, and many, and eventually one, two, three, many, but didn’t have terms for higher numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She starts to fiddle with the program, typing in different numbers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He assumed that Lawrence, in his slapdash way with numbers, had mislaid a decimal point and meant a microcurie, a thousand times less. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As she entered the latitude and longitude of the image, she recognized the numbers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not even bothered to scribble numbers on the back of a napkin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Positive numbers if the boy is more attracted to the girl; negative if vice versa. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Trying to reclaim the drama of his gambling days, my grandfather started playing the West Side numbers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I counted prime numbers in my head until I realized she wasn’t going to ask me anything else. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As spring came on, there seemed to be more and more veterans leaving to start their training, and though they left without fuss in the usual way, the increased numbers made them impossible to ignore. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Church records placed membership numbers over eight hundred before the bombing; after the bombing, that number shrank by 50 percent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That string of numbers that just drifted across the two hundreds screen under the Star of David?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The numbers worked out in my favor, though. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was just one of those smart people like Mom was talking about who mixed up their numbers. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Young salmon of the 1952 hatch, almost ready to go to sea, lost a third of their numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The glowing green numbers on the digital clock glowed 3:12 a.m. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The numbers were rarely used after the Naming. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

All Pearl could see was a string of numbers, but it meant something to Trip. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We start moving up the avenue again, street numbers climbing, which means we're going in the right direction. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Who cared if we didn't have Social Security numbers? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She reached under the desk and pulled out another thick book called Standard Highway Mileage Guide and turned to a page that had a million numbers and city names on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I counted my way around that circle of branches like numbers on the face of a clock, slowly, one deep breath for each number. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that. But I know numbers. The numbers don’t lie, kids. The numbers always tell a story.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

During all of her four years of going to school, she was enchanted by numbers and depressed by words. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valley began to write numbers on the side of the map, her tongue sticking out slightly, her brow furrowed in a show of extreme concentration. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tens of thousands of inmates stood in rows while the SS checked their numbers. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scrawled out a page of numbers and showed them to her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She keeps the cell phone numbers of dozens of students in her own phone, a practice discouraged by the administration. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In languages as diverse as Welsh, Arabic, Chinese, English and Hebrew, there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was easier to think about numbers than to think about the fact that Kamau hadn’t actually answered his question. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I can sew, and I am quite neat. I’m good with numbers,” I say. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I check the numbers against the sheet in my hand. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The bedrooms on either side of the corridor had their numbers painted on the doors in gold. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Is my face round? Are there numbers on it?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Is there a courtship ritual that involves, perhaps, an exchange of doctors’ telephone numbers? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The closer we got to school, the more nervous I became, so I started counting prime numbers in my head again. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nazario brought out his ledger and started jotting down some numbers. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Many of the youngsters from Central America and Mexico who go north on their own do not memorize telephone numbers or addresses. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I dropped my pencil and stopped studying about whole numbers to lean over the worktable. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Vast numbers of people are swept into the criminal justice system by the police, who conduct drug operations primarily in poor communities of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, Sequoyah realized that words were made up of modest numbers of different sound bites that recurred in many different words—what we would call syllables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers are a combination of miniature lightning bolts and uneven curves. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was just a symbol; it didn’t have a place in the hierarchy of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward the edge. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If it is different from all the numbers on the list, it can’t be on the list—but we already assumed our list contains all real numbers; after all, it was a perfect seating list. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In Liverpool, we’d only ever done one-hour sessions, and we just used to do our best numbers, the same ones, at every one. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In other words, the only time we were interesting was when we were accused of atrocities or being slaughtered in prodigious numbers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he saw the numbers, the shift juggling, the outright lies and borderline crimes he'd committed to put this mission together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A row of tiny numbers ran along the top, under a lever. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your ironmen fought bravely, my lady, but we had many times your numbers, and we took you unawares. Winterfell will know that we are coming. And Roose Bolton has as many men as we do.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cotter Pyke’s galleys were reporting ever-increasing numbers of free folk along the wooded shores to the north and east of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Precisely,” said the Mathemagician, making a very theatrical bow, and the entire line of numbers vanished before their eyes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

And of course her favorite “lovey” paper had been covered in numbers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

However, our capacity to cooperate with large numbers of strangers has improved dramatically. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus an Italian opera, typically, was a series of well-defined ‘numbers’, a glorified variety show, with something for everyone and plenty of opportunity for lead singers to have their turn at impressing the audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You're hardheaded, but you’re smart. You can read better than any of us. And the way you do those numbers, all in your head...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At some length, I responded, “If you are asked, you may relate that most of our numbers shall swear fealty to whoever offers emancipation with the greatest celerity.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Because of my reputation, it was easy for me to get into the numbers racket. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even reciting prime numbers didn’t calm me down. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached across her and turned to a map of Greece, even more clustered with spirals and numbers. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Shorty told me that he played at least a dollar a day on the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is that how people introduce themselves around here, by their apartment numbers? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even if we change the probability to one in a million for such a predictive dream, we’ll still get huge numbers of them by chance alone in a country the size of the United States. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were multiple phone companies and different numbers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There will be no more requests to leave granted until our numbers are full. Is that understood?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Price tags with large numbers sat next to each piece of jewelry. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Many had lists of the daily hit numbers going back for years; they figured reappearance odds, and used other systems. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job now was to ride a bus across the George Washington Bridge where a fellow was waiting for me to hand him a bag of numbers betting slips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Matilda is a very lucky girl. She has wonderful parents who have already taught her to multiply lots of numbers. Was it your mother, Matilda, who taught you?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The method used to assign numbers to letters was not specified, however, and so it’s not entirely clear to whom the number refers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also destroyed the address books with her friends’ phone numbers, her most treasured love letters and even her photographs of Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Tawantinsuyu swallowed a new area, the Inka forcibly imported settlers from other, faraway areas, often in large numbers, and gave them land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian is talking about different numbers, though. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

And though I had prayed and figured and thought and schemed, I could not come up with a way to make those numbers look any better. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

No numbers or letters or symbols printed around either one or hidden inside. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When they got to Placer Street—which they'd practically run to after figuring out the numbers—they stopped on the corner, out of breath, and organized the candy. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like, if it's a sum, maybe we should convert the clues to numbers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because numbers are used in music to identify everything from beats to intervals to harmonics to what fingering to use, this naming system is sometimes less confusing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Such myths give Sapiens the unprecedented ability to cooperate flexibly in large numbers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy Preston played a few numbers, and behind him was my dad, a long-haired skinny white hippie playing his horn. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many levels have been left blank for users to input their own information—words, sentences, phone numbers, even pictures. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

With its many new facilities coming into operation, the laboratory again cast its net for the female alchemists who could turn the numbers from testing into aeronautical gold. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Because of his unusual caution, the following seven games, numbers fourteen to twenty, were all draws. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I asked Mr. Grant, pointing at his big numbers, and he nodded. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As though they had exchanged numbers and not words. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

White signs with letters or numbers are placed at intervals around the cavern. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A young woman who was selling numbers for the raffle of an accordion greeted him with a great deal of familiarity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Peris hadn’t given an address, but Tally knew the trick for decoding the random-looking numbers at the bottom of a ping. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The numbers tell the story: She has been gone 107 days. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

How could he explain that it had fit his mind as nothing else ever had, like numbers to a mathematician, or air to a flute? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The three chords in question can be expressed as the numbers I, IV and V because they are the triads that belong to the first, fourth and fifth notes of the major or minor scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This, he thinks, is what the numbers mean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He told us about the magic qualities every number has and how numbers unlock the secrets of the universe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finch has written numbers beside each one so that there’s a kind of order. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By the time the work trickled down to the computer’s desk, it might be just a set of equations and eye-blearing numbers disembodied from all physical significance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The numbers were double that of Angola, then at the end of a long civil war, and the North Korean government became furious when they were released to the public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It is the number that separates the positive numbers from the negative numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

King Pellinore had dropped back among the villagers, feeling that there was safety in numbers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suiseth took an infinite sequence of numbers: 1/2, 2/4, 3/8, 4/16,..., nl2n,..., and added them all together, yielding two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And yet, I thought, watching a numbers runner paying off a bet, this is one place that the Brotherhood definitely penetrated. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we are dealing with the counting numbers—1, 2, 3, and so on—it is easy to rank them in order. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The more one thought about such numbers, in effect, the more one realized that further thought was futile. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The steep decline of these numbers over the centuries suggests that, for one of the gravest human concerns—getting murdered—- the incentives that we collectively cook up are working better and better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Still, she finished repeating the Western Union numbers before she continued braiding, the phone lodged between her shoulder and ear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My friend Josh and I were the only Black fencers on Duke’s team, and we both were on the receiving end of endless numbers of “harmless jokes” and offhand comments that permeated our team culture. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But when Crick quizzed Watson about the precise numbers, Watson could provide only vague answers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

FOREMAN: Well, I was thinking we ought to sit in order, by jury numbers. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might as well have asked them to name the atomic numbers of all the inert gases. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I got full charge of the numbers racket in this hospital,” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She races to the phone, but in her desperation, she dials several wrong numbers before she gets the one she wants. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As they thronged in ever-growing numbers to worship her loveliness no one any more gave a thought to Venus herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Any point on the graph is represented by two numbers, corresponding to the distances along the x axis and up the y axis. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I flip over the piece of paper I’ve been scribbling numbers on. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Vosya meant “Eight,” like the number, and she opened her mouth to ask Ivan why they were all calling each other by numbers. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

So one can specify it by four numbers or coordinates. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can, if you like, recover great numbers of them many hours after the lights have gone out, and grow them out in cultures. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, at least one of us is good with numbers,” Koffi added, eyes staying ahead. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The only people who traveled such long distances to games in massive numbers were Permian fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kepler was worried about such tiny numbers because he had a quite different understanding of astronomy from anyone before him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s algebra. The letters stand in for numbers.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She slid it over to Ube, and he grunted as he read it, nodding his head, then he wrote some reference numbers underneath her question and slid the card back to her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She worked through every minute of what was programmed to be a three-orbit mission, coming up with numbers for eleven different output variables, each computed to eight significant digits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And the other five numbers, well, they were her new phone number. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not exposing our size in numbers,” he evaded the query of one reporter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprising numbers of them seemed to want to see something historic here—that elusive sweep of the Hudson—even if it was a western crew that accomplished the feat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Our numbers seem to hold them back from physical assaults, but more shouting matches are starting to break out along the border that is quickly forming. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults exchange phone numbers, and Ms. Sitton asks if I have any allergies. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope you two exchanged numbers already. We should go, Moss.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For all I know, the numbers on Glory Road might only go up to 20 or 30, but I read on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

This is only true if you accept imaginary numbers as well as real numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I think back to when I got my temperature taken on intake this morning, the flashing numbers on the thermometer blaring out a strong 102. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He goes into the kitchen and opens the cabinet with the emergency numbers posted on it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Much of the training was based on SAS methods and this included the numbers and makeup of each team. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Great numbers of militia met together in full sight of our encampments and fleet, that they might spy upon us and confer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Just as zero suffered from Greek prejudice, other numbers were ignored as well, numbers that made no geometric sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Records indicating their exact numbers have not been preserved, so to this day, the number Lizzy Sobek bore on her forearm remains a mystery. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The only thing on it was a small drawing of a black bird in front of a bridge and ocean waves, and a short string of numbers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

By the mid-2000s, he predicted, their numbers would double or even triple, unleashing a tidal wave of violence across the nation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Keeps him away by talking with Olivia about the growing, growing numbers of their GoFundMe, about the invitations that are piling up for her to visit schools and community centers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They had apparently gone shopping at the Barrachina souvenir shop, where they’d replaced their dirty tattered shirts with loud tropical numbers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As for contacts of New World peoples with Europe, the sole early ones involved the Norse who occupied Greenland in very small numbers between A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a page in the book with graphs and numbers. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The quadratic formula has been known for centuries; the ninth-century mathematician al-Khowarizmi knew how to solve almost every quadratic equation, though he didn’t seem to consider negative numbers as roots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But the more I stare at the numbers, the more they seem to fit. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were numbers, but he didn’t know which ones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even people who have less restrictive filters and a good feel for numbers will note an increasingly large number of coincidences, due in large measure to the number and complexity of man-made conventions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Hamilton did what he had unofficially implied he would do all along: manipulate the numbers to make the Virginians more comfortable with assumption. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This “volume” approach to drug enforcement sweeps up extraordinary numbers of innocent people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For very big or very small numbers, so-called scientific notation is often clearer and easier to work with than standard notation and I’ll therefore sometimes use it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as the man ahead of me had letters and numbers carved into his skin in black ink with an electric needle. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it doesn't matter what I think. Pastor Snyder is the Sheriff’s father, and the real power in town. The preacher makes the final decision on all matters. These numbers are for him.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Though I wasn’t great with my numbers, I handed him a bill like I was sure of things so that he wouldn’t think to try to cheat me on the change. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An important difference between the new Indian number system and the Babylonian style was that Indian numbers were base-10 instead of base-60. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I have a computer screen and numbers and stocks and things...but not the actual money.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The hollows and wights would return for Miss Peregrine, and in ever-greater numbers. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And the cell phone—with all those numbers in its memory. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This process ensures that it’s different from all the other numbers on the list. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She and April exchanged phone numbers and promised to stay in touch. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The entries in their phones are completely divorced from the ten-digit numbers that make calling people possible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

To find the mass of the mountain from all these numbers required a great deal of tedious calculating, for which a mathematician named Charles Hutton was engaged. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For numbers between powers of 10, the logarithm is between the two nearest powers of 10. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His network of spies has told him of increasing numbers of assassination rumors over the past few days. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every penny I put on the numbers is a penny well spent; it buys me that moment to think: What if? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just landed his big-time business job doing whatever he does with numbers and money and ROI, and was going to help my mother open up her own therapy office. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I translate them back into numbers and come up with 1803. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the photo, Elsie stands in front of a wall painted with numbers for measuring height. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The octave below contra can be labelled CCC or Co; higher octaves can be labelled with higher numbers or more lines. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Many of the migrants on Enrique’s train huddle together, hoping for safety in numbers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Part of Caputo’s job was to verify the numbers by inspecting bodies brought into the base. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father always claimed that a league wasn’t really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Similar numbers apply to the works of Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as obvious why the numbers dropped throughout the rest of the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Math was familiar to me, so that was one small comfort—numbers are numbers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more striking than the racial integration of the female mathematicians, which had been spreading organically throughout Langley for years, was the fact that a group focused on computing now employed increasing numbers of men. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He played with the numbers some more, looked at the order of events, texts, and calls, which he’d finally gotten straight in the database. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gradually, our numbers begin to dwindle, and it’s just me and Uriah and Drew. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The officers were under tremendous pressure from their commander to keep their arrest numbers up, and all of the officers were aware that their jobs depended on the renewal of a federal grant. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Coins and pieces of paper and checkbooks and numbers in bank accounts. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So he doubted the accuracy of the numbers. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Greeks just saw the terms as simply getting smaller and smaller, meandering outside the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Supposed that one counts the number of cases of some particular infectious disease in some geographic area, and watches how the numbers change with time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To them, the numbers 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so forth aren’t approaching anything; the destination doesn’t exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A “good” card is one with actual stolen numbers printed on it instead of fake ones. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some numbers cannot be expressed as a simple ratio of a/b. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"All right, if you used the other eighty percent—" "Checking," Martinez said, running the numbers on his console. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a ‘person-counter’ by the ticket desk registering the daily numbers. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The booths on the second floor have no numbers, only lights indicating whether they are occupied. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t have enough room for more than three numbers, anyway,” Brunner said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when the series of equations had been sufficiently reduced would she start the process of inputting values and coming up with numbers using the calculating machines. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Luckily, grand unified theories may provide an explanation of why the universe should now contain more quarks than antiquarks, even if it started out with equal numbers of each. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The operator read off the numbers for Ming’s Chinese Takeout on Magnolia and said, “Please hold while I connect you.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Yet it’s always struck me how inconsistent these various authors have been in their use of large numbers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers, neat and clear, shuttle back and forth between my earmuffs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the landline in the kitchen and punched in three numbers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Someone had drawn a hopscotch game just outside the school yard fence and she started jumping up the numbers, then turning and jumping back down them again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Though counting abilities were rare in the ancient world, numbers and the fundamentals of counting always developed before writing and reading. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Herrero is at pains to stress that black bear attacks are infrequent, relative to their numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many of its fifty-two thousand accounts were offshore holdings, secretly deposited—many without names, just numbers—as tax havens for American citizens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I scribbled the numbers beside my drawing of the dorsal fin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

To the Indians, negative numbers made perfect sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The shower of rocks that fell on the city was seen by large numbers of academics and by English noblemen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Drinker’s diary entry for August 28 concludes: “Isaac Wharton and family are moved out of Town, P. Hartshorne’s family, and Neighr Waln’s also out; the inhabitants are leaving the City in great numbers.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay, so...,” he said, turning his notebook around for me to look at his scribbled numbers. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

That’s when Helen, tumbling to attention, asked to see the numbers. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the monkey trade was established throughout central Africa, the native workers in the system, the monkey trappers and handlers, were exposed to large numbers of wild monkeys, some of which were carrying unusual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He taught her how to make numbers into something larger than themselves, applying them to larger concepts about motion and force, space and time, curves and circles and tightened springs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It seemed that when the telephone was not ringing for him, he was calling someone else, consulting the jotted numbers in his ever-ready memorandum book. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw the access codes to the computer servers the League wants access to. I have a photographic memory, and I’m good with numbers and codes.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As they spread into the Congo Basin’s equatorial forest zone, cleared gardens, and increased in numbers, they began to engulf the Pygmy hunter-gatherers and compress them into the forest itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a trembling finger, I started to dial the numbers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He rested peacefully in his white bedsheets amid tubes going in and out of his body, and screens with green numbers and lines on them, and beeping noises. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Natural laws are described with equations, and equations, in a sense, are simply tools where you plug in numbers and get another number out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell then distributed nine pink cards to girls who raised outstretched fingers and mouthed numbers to each other. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tear-shaped, white with black numbers, the compasses have a drawing of the Kaaba stone at the center. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were arranged by their original numbers, the numbers they had been given at birth. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even the rational numbers—the set of numbers that can be written as a/b for integers a and b—were countable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Positive numbers if the girl is more outgoing; negative if the guy is. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I look at the house numbers until I reach the one that might have my mother inside. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The big difference between these numbers matters less than one might expect: a few thousand square miles of farmland was enough to feed the millions in the Maya heartland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While agricultural workers starved in Ukraine, record numbers of laborers produced factory goods. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Since the numbers are chosen at random, what’s done when a business phone is reached? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You may have been told by some pedant that over doesn’t apply to numbers, only to quantities. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprinted out, read the black numbers over the garage, sprinted back in, and shouted, “1225!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side, blacks like Mr. Horton showed their passion for the power of the ballot and came out in large numbers for Big Bill. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Below the boiler on the hill there were numbers of large pipes also abandoned by the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cantor discovered that the set of real numbers is much, much bigger than the rationals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Like squares and triangles, lines were number-shapes, so dividing a string into two parts was the same as taking a ratio of two numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A large body, such as the earth or the sun, contains nearly equal numbers of positive and negative charges. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But who cares? All I have to do is look at Mom’s cell phone or the microwave, and it will tell me right away, with the numbers.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Virgil wasn’t great with numbers in the first place, and he certainly wasn’t great at telling time, with or without a clock. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of house numbers like where Seven lived, signs reading things like Mango Estate and Snowcap House pointed to the various houses. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

With radiocarbon, these numbers, these ancient ages, could be known, and with ever-increasing accuracy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“She loves numbers is all. That’s always what she talks about.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That population growth also proves unsurprising when one stops to consider the actual numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A glass cylinder looms in the center of the deck, upon which a list of names and numbers constantly updates and loops. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’d written all the facts and numbers in the center of the board, but he’d also painted a border of smiling eggs to add an “artistic design element.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I already programmed all our numbers in,” he said. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The problem’s often phrased in terms of a large number of men who check their hats at a restaurant, whereupon the attendant promptly scrambles the hat- check numbers randomly. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like blank checks with lots of numbers to the left of the decimal point. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

If we start with a carpet the size of half an atom, we can cover all the rational numbers on the number line with carpets that, in total, take up less room than an atom. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the box there were twelve bars of chocolate, all of different shapes, all with different fillings and all with numbers from one to twelve stamped on the chocolate underneath. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Random for most practical purposes, they are actually generated by a deterministic formula which imposes sufficient order on the numbers as to render them useless for some applications. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s all about math and numbers; cars are just not his thing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was sensible enough to sit out jitterbug numbers and avoid music with a South American taint, and Henry said when she learned to talk and dance at the same time she’d be a hit. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This means that the rational numbers take up less than two units of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If they were sounds, they would be echoes, of something that happened millions of years ago: a word made of numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the year 525, at the start of the Dark Ages, all Westerners clung to the clunky Roman style of numbers, and there was no zero in that counting system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It worked for me and I just let them figure out the numbers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers in Haiti had grown to about 400, and to 120 in Peru, and PIH was about to inherit 15 employees in Russia, which included a presence in Siberia as well as Moscow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Black numbers had been stenciled above every doorway: 75, 76, 77.... 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She laughed when I asked how librarians can remember titles, writers, and numbers too. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She had always welcomed the opportunity to appear before an audience that wanted to hear her sing, particularly where large numbers of blacks were included. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Now he closed the accounts book in Sonny’s Shop and gave up on the column of numbers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mid-1960s, with “dreams of working at NASA,” greater numbers of black college students found their way to Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But once the threshold of “several hundred,” below which everyone can know everyone else, has been crossed, increasing numbers of dyads become pairs of unrelated strangers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman writes down some phone numbers and names of restaurants. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There is an obvious reason why we focus on those particular facts: blacks are the sole native Africans familiar to most Americans, because they were brought in large numbers as slaves to the United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We cannot, at the moment at least, predict the values of these numbers from theory—we have to find them by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fossil record speaks to us unambiguously of creatures that once were present in enormous numbers and that have now vanished utterly.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the measure of my height and spanned my middle with a tape, noting the numbers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“But there are two numbers on this card,” said Sierra. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, the fry of 1955 grew very fast and survived in exceptional numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Stanton warned Anthony not to be “dazzled by the promise of a sudden acquisition of numbers to our platforms with the wide-spread influence of the Church behind them.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

With all those numbers and suits in my mind, there wasn’t room for anything else. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Amy told me that letters and numbers have color for you,” she says to me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I see one marker that dates back to 1823, the numbers almost weathered away. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Why are there not equal numbers of each? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered that the grids stood for five kilometers each, and when he counted the numbers of grids between the lake and Brannock’s he came up with about sixteen squares. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

At first the Greek system of numbers was quite similar to the Egyptians’. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Emily repeated the numbers, but once again the recording came on halfway through the call. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But as Pythagoras knew, the rationals aren’t everything under the sun; both the rationals and irrationals make up the so-called real numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or we can punch the numbers into our calculators and see the error message ourselves. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But after the war, with Soviet women officially deemed “physiologically unsuitable for becoming military or even civilian pilots,” the numbers dropped away drastically. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The guys continued to argue over the numbers: They were rating the first-year girls by their head shots in the student handbook. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he got hung up, the boys would politely say their own names, then step forward to declare their jersey numbers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I heard the words I read or the numbers I counted in my head. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He said we were free and told us to tear the numbers and triangles off our uniforms. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At the very least it does not behave the way other numbers do. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Cantor’s theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers—and even the rational numbers—were nothing at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They call out a chorus of numbers that are as familiar to me now as my own name: BP, pulse ox, respiratory rate. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he mean say "yes" because he knew that the principle was greater than the men, greater than the numbers and the vicious power and all the methods used to corrupt its name? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if I was you, sir, I wouldn’t give no wrong numbers.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie’s known to be the meanest, most powerful numbers runner in the racket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The faces of Kevin and Kyle leaning close to what looked like a clock radio, in the middle of a trashed electronics store; the numbers on the clock’s face were climbing, but not counting time. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I see them numbers in the paper and I got to wonder, where do them peoples live? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They exchange phone numbers and then Mom leaves. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The faded sticker on the metal bottom of the controller unit has the same numbers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That made the problem X over six minus another X over six, which didn’t look right because first I had two different numbers and now I had the same number. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on my own, scrolling through my new phone, adding numbers, when someone moves into my peripheral vision. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Thanks to their place- number system, they could add and subtract large numbers in roughly the same way we do today. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And it means that sometimes a whole population of frogs, or worms, or people, can die for no reason whatsoever, just because that is the way the numbers work. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter how many times you study it, the numbers still grab you. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I can tell I’ve almost won when my mom murmurs, “I wonder where you can buy fake Social Security numbers?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Again, I’m making up numbers that I know nothing about. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these partial theories describes and predicts a certain limited class of observations, neglecting the effects of other quantities, or representing them by simple sets of numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he says, "Actually I need you to come because we have to get our membership numbers up. Our school funding is partly decided by meeting attendance." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Beaming, he told us that the zoo was all ours for the day because whites seldom came in great numbers on Tuesdays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band plays soft numbers down in the band area. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

There’s no talk of bills or taxes, and he has no numbers to crunch. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t even go to work, play the numbers, or look at the stocks. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The judges passed around a bowl for drawing out numbers, and as the team captain, I took a slip. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

First of all, he was a famously absent-minded scientist, living in an abstract world of ideas and numbers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A cipher,” he underlined the word, “is when you substitute individual letters with other letters, numbers, or symbols.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While the lady punches out numbers on her phone, I scan the Sears Merchandise Group map and directory on the wall behind the desk. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along its sides were great numbers of red abalones and very few starfish, so before the sun was high I filled the bottom of the canoe. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the spell was broken as great numbers of people, stirred by their own emotions, roared their acclaim and rushed toward Anderson to offer congratulations and good wishes, threatening to mob her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The glowing green numbers of my alarm clock crawled toward seven o'clock, by which time I couldn't take it anymore. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Greeks had inherited their numbers from the geometric Egyptians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The sixth labor, was to drive away the Stymphalian birds, which were a plague to the people of Stymphalus because of their enormous numbers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Denys Mallister writes that the mountain people are moving south, slipping past the Shadow Tower in numbers greater than ever before. They are running, my lord . . . but running from what!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One of the most striking losses was the Carolina parakeet, a lovely, innocuous bird whose numbers in the wild were possibly exceeded only by the unbelievably numerous passenger pigeon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a few numbers, everyone was covered in sweat and laughing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was true that the other side had twice his numbers, but most of them were afraid of him and none was a trained Efrafan officer. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was May before we had as many as twelve divisions in the field, and summer had come before our troops began to move across the sea in numbers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Multiplying two numbers was equivalent to taking an area of a rectangle, but what could the area of a rectangle with zero height or zero width be? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Jet Stone Girl and Jet Stone Boy held each other’s hands and were staring at the stars that were appearing in greater and greater numbers by the second. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

WL I was young, before I could tell numbers and operate a scales and so record the weight of my own excrement, the men of the house daily performed this calculation for me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Doors open off it, with numbers on them: a hundred and one. a hundred and two, the way you count during a thunderstorm, to see how close you are to being struck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its blank face began to flicker with zig-zag lines; then some numbers appeared, followed by the date and time. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The problem is not that the clock radio feels underdressed, the problem is that I cannot bear to watch the numbers advance in the heartless way common to this particular model. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A little ways down the line, other guys run a roller over the raised part, the letters and numbers, turning them white. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he gave my mom a little white card with phone numbers on it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The environment contained these hostile elements even before there was life; yet life arose, and over the millions of years it came to exist in infinite numbers and endless variety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He thought he was going the right direction, but there were no house numbers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Got it here somewhere,” said Hagrid, and he started emptying his pockets onto the counter, scattering a handful of moldy dog biscuits over the goblin’s book of numbers. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Snowball had made a close study of some back numbers of the Farmer and Stockbreeder which he had found in the farmhouse, and was full of plans for innovations and improvements. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Still, every morning she would examine Ching Chow, a daily cartoon that supposedly gave lucky numbers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After age twelve, the numbers didn't matter much, were rarely referred to. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The officer entered a series of numbers into the computer, his face serious. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Algebra presented another way of looking at numbers, entirely divorced from the Greek geometric ideas. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The phone started speaking in a robot voice, calling out the numbers of whoever was on the line. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Having direct knowledge of the Lyceum, he probably helped design arrangements in the Museum; he is credited with urging Ptolemy I to purchase and/or copy books in vast numbers for the Library. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

After doing their calculations with Babylonian notation, Greek astronomers usually converted the numbers back into clunky Greek-style numerals—without zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I could read, write, and figure numbers faster than most. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those numbers now decorating the walls, those were all people, somehow. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Thus, a ratio of two numbers was nothing more than the comparison of two lines of different lengths. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“A lot of autistic people have a special talent. James is great with numbers. But he has his problems, too.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Only if the early universe was very smooth and uniform, with a high pressure, can one explain the absence of observable numbers of primordial black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night at supper, Dad was firing questions at Dan on the squares of numbers up to twenty-five. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Right. A bunch. I guess negative numbers are still numbers," Bryson razzed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

When scythes’ numbers become lopsided, they are disciplined by the High Blade, and are assigned their gleanings for the next year rather than being allowed to choose for themselves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Transcribing the oral number system into written form was a simple task: people just needed to figure out a coding method whereby scribes could set the numbers down in a more permanent form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Brian shrugged and continued, calling out the names in singsong fashion, with measured pauses, letting his voice linger over the names and numbers, a weird litany here in the quiet office. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many places, huge numbers of strikers were jailed and then promised they would be released if they went back to work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The only story of interest was on the cover: crows in record numbers were infesting the town. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As a practice, I prefer to avoid abbreviations and to write out numbers, as opposed to using numerals. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were no times, no dates, no license plate numbers. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You and your numbers! Look, Nat! We have to get up early tomorrow! Mr. Baker’ll be here before sunup to help us move back to Salem. Now settle down and go to sleep!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the city’s numbers kept increasing, the forest could not return. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since tissues connected to their donors’ names are subject to strict regulation under the Common Rule, samples are no longer named using donor initials as Henrietta’s cells were; today they’re usually identified by code numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“And then I need you all to line up, from numbers fifty-one through one hundred like Beckany instructed outside.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

At the same time women were uniting in great numbers to gain the vote, a huge segment of them were facing another challenge, one that history books have often overlooked. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gained over hunter-gatherer tribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Also, the Babylonians used only two marks to represent their numbers: a wedge that represented 1 and a double wedge that represented 10. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

On it is a list of prisoners’ names and their corresponding room numbers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

These irrational numbers were an unavoidable consequence of Greek mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We knew that people would be coming in large numbers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting freshets carried streams of fresh water far out to sea and drew in unusual numbers of salmon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had almost everything at this point: an envelope of money, phone numbers for two different taxi services—the Cairns Cab Company and the Coral Sea Coach shuttle service. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As he and his aide passed by, Hannah could see the paper on the clipboard was now covered with numbers and names. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the end of summer the little rodents had doubled, tripled, even quadrupled their numbers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting tomorrow, we’ll be back to working on our dance numbers and our walking, talent, swimsuit, and evening gown presentations, just like nothing ever happened.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Riemann merged projective geometry with the complex numbers, and all of a sudden lines became circles, circles became lines, and zero and infinity became the poles on a globe full of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He’s holding up a letter, showing us where to write the numbers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“We are talking about enormous numbers of people,” she told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rowan took his time crunching the numbers, knowing that every second taken was a second of life he bought for Kohl. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Gary is running around handing everyone safety pins and pieces of paper with handwritten numbers on them, which the auditioners are pinning to themselves. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Before them, Rocky stabbed his finger against the screen, hitting numbers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The engineers subjected the airplanes to tests, capturing and analyzing the numbers, recommending improvements, some slight, others significant. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her voice incited others, and now large numbers of people were calling out, “Close Village! Close the border!” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She kept her eyes fixed on the elevator floors as they blinked into the magical numbers: 400, 450, 500. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He has added the names and phone numbers of scouts and alumni boosters from the three Florida schools—people like Mr. Donnelly and Larry and Frank. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced around to see if the numbers were in order. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Taiwan’s aborigines had the island largely to themselves until mainland Chinese began settling in large numbers within the last thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And while many mathematicians saw the complex numbers as a convenient fiction, others saw God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I grab a railing at the side of the elevator, watching the numbers climb. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That he was outnumbered did not matter because the whole world had outnumbered him long ago, and what do numbers matter? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Three other people in the room jump up and swear their numbers have personalities too. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Of course I am not checking the ten or more digit UPC numbers, which lie just under the bar codes—nobody does. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in growing numbers researchers came to believe that the Amazon basin, too, bears the fingerprints of its original inhabitants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instantly they regrouped behind the blackberry bramble and charged out again—but this time in smaller numbers: first two, then three, then two again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ticks and mosquitoes were indefatigable and present in huge numbers; the ticks were worse than the mosquitoes, Stirling remarked, because they had to be dug out of the flesh with a knife. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon, numbers and letters appear in random places around the dome, highlighting the areas where the code is generating bits of virtual reality over the actual scene. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, when I flip through her old planner for the second time, I find a folded receipt with some numbers and letters circled. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If you can contact it, I can draw hex numbers on the wheels and you can send me six bytes at a time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shukumar put the rice on the table and the lentils from the night before into the microwave oven, punching the numbers on the timer. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The senders simply forgot that things like names and street numbers were necessary for the successful delivery of mail. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We go to dances and twirl around during the rock numbers, or shuffle in the blue light, surrounded by the shuffling of the other couples. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Newton’s and Leibniz’s calculus depends upon dividing by zero—and on numbers that miraculously disappear when you square them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her old fears of the Revolution and the Marxist-Leninist menace had been rekindled by new television worries about the growing numbers of desperate and dispossessed people. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These colors and shapes make it fun and easy to play with numbers, and I can find patterns in anything from the stock market to baseball games to the price of cereal. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote down numbers, crossed some out, wrote down some more, “Quince,” he murmured. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by cough medicine and cold sore ointment, he started playing a “gig,” meaning three numbers at once. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Still time to call 911, but rather than dial those three little numbers, I drove toward the mall exit because I wanted to get away from it all first. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I grip tighter the morral with my food and pat the places where I have hidden the precious phone numbers and pesitos. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The brand wasn’t like American brands, which were initials or letters or even numbers; it looked like a big butterfly with its wings outstretched, or two loops of rope tied together in the center. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers began to take on a life of their own, which was at the same time the life he gave them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only they could rescue her; but dementors in those numbers would be virtually unassailable. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She perused Aviation Week, trying to connect the dots between the latest industry advance and the torrent of numbers flowing through her calculating machine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Would it be easier if we exchanged numbers?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The numbers used to solve the square ended up being the combination for a lock on a hidden box that contained Shakespeare’s Secret. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pretended to add all of those numbers up on my fingers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I discovered that if I make numbers into a picture story in my mind, the answers come easier. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the little chain around her neck and lifted it clear and unsnapped the clasp—a small gold watch, a little tube, and two safe- deposit keys, numbers 27 and 29. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d love to see math and numbers the way I do—in everything from the stars to building construction to ripples on a lake. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The thought, like...stresses me out? Like, I keep meaning to go look at the numbers, and then I just. Shut down.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Publicity, of course, tends to obscure these numbers, but like the Surgeon General’s warning on cigarette packages, the figures would eventually begin to filter into the public consciousness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was welcoming the crowds with folksy numbers he played on the instruments—washboard, harmonica, drums, cymbals—lashed to various parts of his body. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The numbers were like war paint on the white face of the clock, the hands like swords as they slashed across the pearly surface. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Another woman swears that her numbers not only have color, but also have personalities. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The driver got out and struck a match and went door to door, holding up the flame to read the numbers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Fourth and last: The opening up of a new and intriguing world of words, songs and numbers gradually established in me a desire to learn more. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one recalls when the gift-giving started, probably in the 1980s, when Central Americans, fleeing war and poverty, began riding the rails north in large numbers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had a remarkable memory for numbers but forgot names as soon as she heard them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few Greeks, however, such as Democritus, held that matter was inherently grainy and that everything was made up of large numbers of various different kinds of atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the chalk from my hand and wrote some numbers on the board. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The survivors, in massive numbers, threw themselves into the sea and drowned. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nurse records our names and the numbers from our passes on the Compudoc, to see if we are who we are supposed to be. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lines divide the map into smaller squares, with letters along the top and numbers down the side to form a grid. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The winning numbers hover in the middle of the screen, suspended against a brilliant blue background. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He puts the paper back down and cups his chin with one hand; the other hand punches numbers into a calculator. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cantor opened up a whole new universe of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was the false safety of numbers that gave the three officers the bravado to rush the car. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“All he ever seemed to want was knowledge—numbers to crunch, history to learn, information to file away and use later....” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Why are we called by names, when all others have numbers?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The numbers are usually lit on the oven’s clock. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had a storage room with stacks of long sheets of paper with numbers on the margins and boxes of pens, pencils, staples, and paper clips. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun did so, in the company of a dozen other men, and with such numbers he did not fear strip searches or violence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We know that large numbers of black men have been locked in cages. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Logic and Pseudoscience Since numbers and logic are inextricably intertwined both theoretically and in the popular mind, it’s perhaps not stretching matters too far to describe faulty logic as a kind of innumeracy. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the numbers and messages scrawled on the wall by the phone. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Also of exceptional general interest was a series of tricks whereby Dad could multiply large numbers in his head, without using pencil and paper. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unlighted, tree-lined street was so dark they couldn’t make out house numbers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If he predicted that I would like numbers someday, I would be open to the idea. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I won’t be able to concentrate on anything but the numbers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to explain to her about binary numbers, and how they were the system that computers used and how Dad said they were far superior to other numeric systems. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Papi asks, then hurries away to the phone and begins dialing some numbers. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They would have thrived, increased in numbers, and gradually spread south to occupy the whole hemisphere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is when confronted by the overwhelming signal of free molecules of endotoxin, evoking memories of vibrios in great numbers, that the limulus flies into panic, launches all his defenses at once, and destroys himself. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scratching numbers into the dust on the seat, I started the math, but John jumped in right quick with, “We need one hundred sixty bricks? I’ll be here until January!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Emily ran her finger along the numbers, counting in her head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Off go the numbers, winging out across rooftops, across the sea, flying to who knows what destinations. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Alexandra of my childhood and youth was a shantytown of mostly shacks, a few decent houses, lots of gutters and lots of unpaved, potholed streets with numbers from First to Twenty-third. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

These kids could remember complicated strands of numbers and recall words and pictures in correct sequence and quote long passages of poetry. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Go to the Ufizzi in Florence, the Louvre in Paris, and you are so crushed with the numbers, once the might of greatness, that you go away distressed, with a feeling like constipation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what happens when we start removing numbers from the set? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

From my desk within the walls of Sing Sing, I see daily the constantly increasing numbers of boys and young men who are committed to prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my numbers in Quichua from playing market so much; I could even add and subtract and make change. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is when the numbers of dead are very small, and very close, that we begin to think in scurrying circles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobcats, bears, red and gray foxes, beaver, skunks, raccoons, flying squirrels, and our friends the salamanders exist in admirable numbers, though you don’t often see them, as most are nocturnal or wary of people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And he warned that the numbers of these “fatherless, Godless, and jobless” teens were growing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had enough of this. For the last time, numbers do not have colors. Now, are you going to complete the assignment?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A number's value comes from its place on the number line—from its position compared with other numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I was the businessman. I was the numbers guy.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He ignored the zodiac signs and letters, lining up the correct numbers so they made the value of pi. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Letters were multiplied by symbols, crowded into parentheses, and set upon by dwarfish numbers drawn at odd angles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Our session voted to begin the evening at a nearby Hooters; later, back at “800-block,” as one instructor had nicknamed the Hojo building with room numbers in the eight hundreds, matters escalated considerably. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The guys got out of the car and exchanged phone numbers with my mom and her cousin. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At the most obvious level, these numbers confirmed with enhanced precision the self-evident reality that slavery was a sectional phenomenon that was dying out in the North and flourishing in the South. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The three “veteran” prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flip through the clean pages, greeting the numbers like old friends. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I now planned my bouts in numbers, and used that to my advantage to stay focused. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After a couple of slow numbers cooled the place off, they brought on Dinah Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others had music videos or numbers going across. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On her nightstand, her clock glowed green, the numbers already inching toward the time she had to get up for school, but she had a good hour at least. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Yet as big as those numbers were, they were finite—and were more than enough to fill the universe to overflowing with sand. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Officers give her their names and job numbers; she tells them where they’re posted. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Europe, untold numbers of native species were crushed against the impassable barrier of the Alps and its smaller cousins and fell into extinction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before that numbers were hopelessly unreliable, and no one bothered to produce population figures for whole countries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She would not abandon a daughter to this life, but train her to read the columns of blood and numbers in men’s eyes, to understand the morphology of survival. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nods up at the numbers above my head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Truth is on your side, the numbers too. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m good at math. I’m great with numbers. But I don’t know why this bothers you, Maddie. That is something I can’t figure out.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s not their numbers that make my hands shake so. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As the daylight faded, the ghosts started moving closer and in greater numbers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Rows and rows of numbers, over and over again, in neat columns, in her small, tight script. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Special SS units massacred great numbers of the evicted Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He has already given up trying to crack the code: he has written out the numbers, gridded them, added, multiplied; nothing has come of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Dad was in the garage painting the identification numbers on his J-3, and so when the phone rang there was no one to pick it up but me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And whites saw mulattoes—the children of those relationships — as potential allies, a buffer between them and the enormous numbers of slaves on the island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Three of the new names—Isaiah, Jordan, and Elijah—were in fact numbers one, two, and three in 2000. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It is because of these robust and growing numbers that hunting has been reintroduced as a way of keeping them from getting out of hand. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote a bunch of numbers on the board, and Sra. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I can only make out some of the numbers and letters, and what scares me the most is that I don’t remember if I disabled her password. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I combated him with health class facts and my father’s numbers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Or thinking of it? All your folk should have been inside Udûn before yesterday evening. You know that. Up you get and fall in, or I’ll have your numbers and report you.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They take them one by one and put them through the plate press, changing the numbers as they go. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I look around, and my eyes fall on the microwave clock flashing the time in bright-green numbers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In truth, as the official riot report later verified, the numbers in the Tribune were reversed—two-thirds of those dead were black. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Those numbers are so enormous they’re almost meaningless, even to an adult. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And I hadn’t even counted prime numbers first. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, a 2002 survey of 122 California employers revealed that although most employers would consider hiring someone convicted of a misdemeanor offense, the numbers dropped dramatically for those convicted of felonies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everything just flew by me: the teacher’s words, the numbers on the page, the letters in my reader. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guides held up colored placards with different numbers and lectured in dozens of languages like they were playing some kind of international bingo. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There are no reliable numbers on defections to China, or on the movement of people drifting around inside North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Alvarez seconded Nahmias’s perception that the cyclotron was used “as a radioactivity factory first of all because great numbers of new radioisotopes could be discovered that way with very little effort.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I—I don’t have any bank account numbers or anything but, if you look, there are pay stubs and invoices and requests of service,” Nora says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But this isn’t math. This is the Dewey decimal system and there’s always three numbers to the left of the decimal point.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

As the boys and Luma debated, Kanue took Luma’s cell phone and quietly began to scroll through her contacts list, writing down the phone numbers of his teammates and other kids whose names he recognized. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They worked as hard as their male counterparts, and they were able to outfly all the other Po-2 bomber regiments for sheer numbers in their nightly missions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The fast numbers were a riot of energy, and the ballads put the entire place into some kind of powerful, floating dream state. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People come from everywhere to get me to stand in for ’em at drawings and give them numbers to play. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time I watched his fingers, on each number, and checked the numbers that came up in the window. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I played with it all the time, and Dad played too, calling out deck numbers for the computer to take us to like we were really on board the Enterprise. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Though the Indian number system was useful for everyday tasks like addition and multiplication, the true impact of Indian numbers was considerably deeper. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And new problems had arisen as insects once present only in insignificant numbers had increased to the status of serious pests. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his cell out of his pocket, punched in a couple numbers, held it to his ear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her- schel had been misled because of the copious amount of obscuring dust in the direction of Sagittarius; he had no way to know of the enormous numbers of stars beyond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently there was too much else for them to do, as wealthy visitors and foreign dignitaries began arriving in ever-greater numbers, shadowed by a swarm of pickpockets, thugs, and petty swindlers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If only he were as good with women as he is with numbers. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But Windy would probably assume I love nature, not numbers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Positive numbers if the boy is more attracted to the girl; negative if vice versa. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“We need to state our project as a problem. A problem with numbers.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nor could the Babylonians add or subtract with zero, let alone use zero to enter the realm of negative numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Positive numbers, negative numbers, and zero all give you nonnegative squares, and those three possibilities cover the whole number line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

No civilization can possibly survive to an interstellar space- faring phase unless it limits its numbers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Timex watch with a second hand and a real leather band and numbers for regular time and numbers for military time. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had numbers for all of the different tactical move he had taught us, so when we were at a match he could shout a number to us and we’d know what to do. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even those people who joy in numbers and are impressed with bigness are beginning to worry, gradually becoming aware that there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger along the depths and indicators, reading the numbers. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

These are of course respectable numbers, but even with so much to take in, supernovae are extremely rare. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Maya numbers grew, so did the islands beneath them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One time she and Mom had been talking about numbers, and Mom had said that they were symbolic. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He reached into the bag and pulled out clunky black leather numbers with metal bars across the tops. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then asked us to give him double-digit numbers up to twenty to multiply in his head. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“A guy I know went to the police when he got into trouble with a numbers runner,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Negative numbers had long been useful to algebraists—even Western algebraists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were lights on the midway, and you could hear the crackle of the gambling machines and the music of the merry-go-round and the voice of the man in the beano booth calling numbers. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The mermaids had written their phone numbers in waterproof ink on Hazel’s arm so that she could keep in touch. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When later there is a resurgence of the insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to keep their numbers in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The human computers crunching all of those numbers—now that the astronauts understood. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the 1830s Gauss realized that each complex number—numbers that have real and imaginary parts, like 1 – 2i—can be displayed on a Cartesian grid. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My eyes jumped from the digital clock—my return flight was in a few hours—to the mailbox numbers on the tree-lined suburban street. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But more than just increasing in numbers, Mr. Muhammad’s version of Islam now had been getting in some other types of black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some red paint and white numbers that seemed to tower over him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was awkward to require Social Security numbers from any parent or caregiver who was going to drive a kid over to our house to play. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Math makes sense. So maybe we could use numbers to express our problem and even the solution.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

To make things more concrete, let’s put some numbers on the problem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I wrote their numbers down and we each made a call. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Let’s do the same thing with the rational numbers—but this time our carpets are sets of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Undeniably the instinct to support the arts went - and still goes - hand in hand with a desire to reach out to larger numbers of people, but the two aims were often contradictory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But today, my third day being twelve, I whisper to Andrew: “I’ll help. At lunch, I’ll show you why numbers and letters mean.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Ray should be in pre-K or something. He doesn’t say much, but he understands a lot. He already knows his numbers and colors.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I load the dishwasher as slowly as I can and signal the answers to Emma by drawing numbers in the air behind Jennifer’s back. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The 2000 census revealed that one-third of Clarkston’s population was foreign-born, though almost everyone suspected the number was higher because census estimates did not account for large numbers of refugees and immigrants living together. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

With prisons so much in the news, costing so much money, and confining such unprecedented numbers of people, it seemed to me that their operations should be completely transparent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car takes off and Delilah pulls out her phone, walking toward the street corner while looking up phone numbers for nearby bookstores. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Francy was the smartest Low Cut when it came to numbers. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s only numbers,” he says, quietly enough that Hauptmann cannot hear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was along the conveyor belt where the numbers were painted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this day, when he needs to multiply, he adds a column of numbers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

By comparing their numbers each year, the counters could tell whether or not their efforts to ban pesticides and pass laws protecting the birds were working. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I think he’s talking about Lotto numbers,” I explain. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Zeitoun siblings were all close-knit, but no one worried more, and spent more time collecting and updating addresses and phone numbers and photos, than Ahmad. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Crunching numbers,” however, wasn’t as fun as it sounded. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But when Claire stopped by, though she was greeted pleasantly by the receptionist, she was told that they had no need for extra help until the numbers increased. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tattooing pen burned her flesh, leaving a trail of blue numbers in her arm above the wrist. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in a while there would be mention of our own killed, but the numbers didn’t seem to even match the numbers I saw in the hospital unit. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are five thousand strong as I write, our numbers swelling every day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the precious final minutes he wrote out his address for her, a bleak sequence of acronyms and numbers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

With numbers, the magic is all in the luck of it, a thing that’s out of my hands and everyone else’s. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the crazy night the day before, I was ready for a nice quiet lunch, full of numbers, variables, quadratic equations and not much else. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man goes into the right-hand pillbox, to punch our numbers into the Compuchek. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep these horrible numbers from ruining the Pythagorean doctrine, the irrationals were kept secret. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Probably the first medical use of modern insecticides occurred in Italy in 1943 when the Allied Military Government launched a successful attack on typhus by dusting enormous numbers of people with DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If there are large numbers of people having the blood test, the medical director would be wise to take part of each sample, pool it, and test this pooled sample first. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's not real, Ekon reminded himself as the numbers filled his mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be in our meeting room, putting together a list of new Dewey decimal numbers from the Bibliomania cards so we’re ready to hit the ground running when the doors reopen at ten tomorrow morning.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In Chicago, increasing numbers of Muslims were leaving Mosque Two, I heard, and many non-Muslims who had been sympathetic to the Nation were now outspokenly anti-Muslim. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stones in different columns have different values, and by manipulating them a skilled user can add large numbers with great speed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Festooned with equations and numbers, it was intimidating to read, even for experts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Succinctly: The law of large numbers gives a theoretical basis for the natural idea that a theoretical probability is some kind of guide to the real world, to what actually happens. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she checks the numbers on the calculator against the numbers in the checkbook, Uhmma absent-mindedly rubs her thumb back and forth. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She had a knack for numbers, that one, even in an emergency. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellis asked if we wanted to go first, but I did one of his numbers. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A new highway to the Pacific is bringing ever-greater numbers of businesses to Acre. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of former slaves roamed the highways in the early years after the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Think of the AD years as positive numbers and the BC years as negative ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I had just done the numbers: 14, back to 7, over to 28 . Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Written in grease pencil on the acetate surface of the chart were columns and rows of numbers—the numbers of American and enemy troops killed or wounded in battle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And the numbers for the day had come out already, so betting time was over. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or they can have pictures of really big numbers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The man sitting next to me was wearing a watch that read 1:57 in small, glowing numbers. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“She was a whiz with numbers,” Mrs. Farmer continued. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Descartes thought that these numbers were even worse than negative numbers; he came up with a scornful name for the square roots of negatives: imaginary numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mix a few numbers up on your birth certificate, show up with what appears to be the appropriate license, and you’re set. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’d warm the crowd up with a few songs, then the dancers would come out and do a couple of numbers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nobody stopped work to listen, though, because Onofre had always been a lousy piano player, even with two hands, and he still tunked out basically atonal numbers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked as slowly as I could to the blackboard, looking hard at the numbers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He simply started over at a myriad myriads, setting 100,000,000 equal to one, and counting again, calling these new numbers, numbers of the second order. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how much money that is since my Urdu is especially terrible when it comes to numbers. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"If we tell the real story about the war, show people that they're not alone, they will start to talk. Then they will grow in strength and numbers." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He checked some numbers and fluids, pulled back Mr. Terupt’s eyelids to look at his pupils with his penlight, and then started to leave. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Can you show me how to work up the numbers?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Villagers ran from combat clutching small children as news anchors reported ever-growing numbers of Americans killed in action. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This numbers joint fronted as a candy store. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mendel’s ratios and numbers were not just accurate; they were too perfect. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The few problems that did arise, it was asserted, were caused by “certain types,” namely the rising numbers of poor Irish, German, and Scandinavian immigrants. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then there are diagrams and strings of numbers, and references to things that everyone here seems to recognize except me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By sheer weight and numbers, they pulled me down. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was where she kept all of her appointments and phone numbers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He acknowledged their place in the system, erecting their big houses on a foundation of numbers, but he didn’t respect them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All my numbers are adamantly average—not too high, not too low. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers went into the machines one at a time, came out one at a time, and were stored on a piece of paper for anyone to see. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Certain numbers were holy or evil, according to the kabbalists—and they looked through the Bible for these numbers and for hidden messages found by scanning through it in various ways. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Here are the winning numbers for this week’s twenty-three-million-dollar jackpot,” the announcer says swiftly. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Prisoners were killed all the time for far less. But he could tell by the low camp numbers on our uniforms that we were both old-timers. He was one himself. Maybe that was why.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m still stuck. I’ve been trying to crack the code all night, and I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. It’s just a bunch of numbers.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as I read the numbers on the page, I know Ollie has made a mistake. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In 1662, for example, John Graunt published the numbers dying in London, the cause of death and his estimate of their age at death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Take all of the numbers in the complex plane and multiply them by two. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The auctioneer rattled off numbers that echoed through the huge open room, its ceiling nearly thirty feet high and covered with skylights blackened by years of dirt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her handwriting was impeccable—small, soft, and elegant numbers filled the pages of her account book. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s listed, along with the other numbers, under G, both for Ganguli and for Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered around the outside aisles, looking at the awkward Stations of the Cross, done in grubby oils, almost a paint by numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even smaller numbers accompanied the Court's decisions banning the death penalty for non-homicide offenses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I take the orange and white ticket with the six magic numbers out of Uhmma’s purse. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Now there would be safety in numbers, with equipment to back them up. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

What math I was ever taught I learned doing the breakfast dishes and listening to Mother explain, over and over, what a fraction is or how to use negative numbers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“So, first you want to divide the numbers to figure out what the cost per ounce is, then you want...” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They had an influence out of all proportion to their numbers....While always posing as a woman's protest, the real strength of the movement was in the men. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Students joined the demonstrations in growing numbers, cutting classes so they could appear at that day’s assigned meeting place. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time he extolled the English, filling Massasoit’s ears with tales of their cities, their great numbers, their powerful technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I showed her the pages I had written so far, with the diagram of the universe and the map of the street and the prime numbers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had a list of all the numbers in Lake Windsor Downs. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the first number on the list starts with a 3 and our new number starts with a 2, we know that the two numbers are different. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Just the numbers, disembodied, don’t feel like a betrayal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the license plate shop where our gang worked, he operated the machine that stamped out the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive feeling for these numbers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She lingered over her children as long as she could before a late-night return to her corner of the war machine, the numbers on her data sheets swimming before her tired eyes the next day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And then he tells us how many people get on and off and we have to add and subtract the numbers in our head. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

An Osage scholar once observed, “Walking through an Osage cemetery and seeing the gravestones that show the inordinate numbers of young people who died in the period is chilling.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Would they come back up in greater numbers? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The bearers make a fuss about numbers and tickets, the wounded whimper. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that two sets of numbers are the same size when one set of numbers can “sit” on top of another set of numbers—one to a customer—with none left over. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Looking at the small firefights and numbers of enemy killed, de la O figured the United States had the upper hand. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day double-checking my numbers and running more tests. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came out in large numbers in the aftermath of a shipwreck to stand on the beach and stare in awe at the latest foundering vessel; some brought binoculars and cameras. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside the bus shelter is a sign with letters and numbers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When the people of the house came out, they came in numbers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Is the method for choosing exchanges and numbers random? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers at the top of the letter. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But Elizebeth and her team slowly worked out a possible way of converting the digraphs into numbers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

One of them was the test which the New York woman was in the process of giving us—not the embarrassing personal questions, but the business of circling numbers, spelling, and filling in blanks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But numbers seem to sink to the bottom like rocks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Rousseau’s disparagement of the English as “a nation of shopkeepers” persists as a belief that a concern with numbers and details numbs one to the big questions, to the grandeur of nature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t do that, because it’s hard enough catching bats. No reason to reduce their numbers.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Also present in prodigious numbers are microscopic mites and primitive wingless insects called springtails. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But he could count to high numbers, launching himself first with his ten fingers. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though exact numbers aren’t known, some experts claim that the total number of victims may have doubled to 200,000 or more. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the dinner has begun, and table numbers are being called one by one on the loudspeaker. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

These numbers were all six digits in length, and they also began with the numeral “6,” so everyone began calling them the Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But Cantor’s hierarchy of infinities would tell a different tale: it would show just how little space the rational numbers take up on the number line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The officers at the table talk with indignation about other numbers: the Eighth and Fifth German Armies retreat north through Italy, the Tenth Army might be encircled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

These are the rules that we recognize today: divide two numbers and the answer is positive if the numbers’ signs are the same. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

All they did was move paper around and adjust numbers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Nazis took our names and numbers and made new documents for us to replace the ones that had been destroyed before they marched us into Dachau. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every day we learned new letters and new numbers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m really excited to get all the numbers and data. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

On it were stamped many numbers and her name in gold. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, once more, but this time, when you exhale, count as many numbers as you can before you take another breath.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had dialed at least ten numbers, she sank down into her chair and sat silent for a long while. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the face of the sphere—seven rings, each one covered with tiny Greek letters, numbers, and zodiac signs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For the next three days, alone or in numbers, families mourn their children and their neighbors’ children. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Twas thim same numbers had thim destroyed altogether. Who would want to be killing a mortal for what he didn’t understand, or for nothing? I took up with the single combats instead.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not only their numbers; there was also something insect­like about the clicking, whirring sound of their wings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When one works out the likely numbers involved, one finds that this effect would make only a trivial contribution to the Americas’ 5,000-year lag in food-producing villages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, so this is the top of our clock,” he says, and quickly scratches the numbers one through twelve around the clock face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers don’t mean all that much to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To them, numbers and philosophy were inseparable, and they took both very seriously. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Not that I need the phone numbers saved. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know those games on the back of cereal boxes, where the letters stand for numbers? What does every code need in order to be cracked?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The colors combined to form an exquisite pattern of trees, with the tiniest of individual leaves outlined in countless numbers. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her fingers across the numbers on her sore arm as if memorizing them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one California Highway Patrol Officer said, “It’s sheer numbers....You’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There might even be a sliding scale, with perfect numbers selling at a premium and prime numbers going for more than nonperfect composite numbers, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recited the prime numbers between a thousand and ten thousand. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

All numbers in the complex plane suffer this fate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And then the mailbox, with the address, which is always just one or two numbers. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

People still pass through in large numbers, but they park in a turnout, have a brief appreciative gaze, then get back in their cars and drive off. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I am told by Will that I should not fear Carolinian numbers so much as Virginian sharpshooters, who, armed with rifles, can far outreach the musket in range and fatal accuracy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

However, irrational numbers, unlike zero, could not easily be ignored by the Greeks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Macassans thus came only in small numbers and for temporary visits and never penetrated inland, just a few groups of Australians on a small stretch of coast were exposed to them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

During the first two decades after the war for independence from Britain, large numbers of first- and second-generation Ulster Scots moved westward into the Ohio Valley, western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the increase in births still outpaced the increase in deaths; humans kept having larger numbers of children. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that students with Spanish surnames be admitted in greater numbers to colleges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All during this meal he talks about the caterpillars: their numbers, their ingenuity, the various methods of defeating them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up each morning to find my polling numbers up. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While the DDT had killed off all stream insects the year before, the smallest of the insects — the midges and blackflies — had returned in numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sweeping the glass all around us I could see here and there dots moving singly and in twos and threes and larger numbers—the wolves were gathering for their prey. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The numbers went 0, 1,2, 3: zero came first, one was second in line, and two was in third place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I tap my toe 3 times to stop the flow of numbers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have much learning of numbers, but it seemed like they was saving the wages to be $1.15 or $1.50 a week. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A certificate would be sent to subscribers and a book with their names and cosmic numbers would be registered in the Library of Congress. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If numbers could do all that for me, maybe they could help Liz too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Business was dull all day, because numbers of people had gone to the game. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I looked at the red numbers on the digital alarm clock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the numbers were pan of the memory, all of his life was part of the memory. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each single combination of numbers was a new set-up for the family and no two stories were ever the same. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, all I could see were the red numbers on our alarm clock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hand-drawn boxes circle the center of the board and hold brilliantly colored numbers, one through seventy. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He reached into his breast pocket and took out a sheet of paper covered with numbers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This did nothing to encourage the ticket buyers, whose numbers dwindled to the single digits by the second night of our weeklong run. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"It was strange to see in a kid his age,” says Walt, "but he loved Tony Bennett. He’d sing numbers like ‘Tender Is the Night’ while I accompanied him on piano. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the scraps are telephone numbers: their only way to contact their mothers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her fingers traced the numbers on the phone, touched them without pressing them. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And yet these numbers, the googol and the googolplex, do not approach, they come nowhere near, the idea of infinity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was essentially just a confusing mass of numbers, but Hutton noticed that if he used a pencil to connect points of equal height, it all became much more orderly. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Zero and infinity are eternally locked in a struggle to engulf all the numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Like the Greeks, the Hebrews used letters from their alphabet to represent numbers, so every word had a numerical value. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She tries to grade a third exam but cannot concentrate; the numbers drift across the pages and collect at the bottom in unintelligible piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For example, quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding season survived and even produced normal numbers of fertile eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“There was a diagram in there, but I can’t draw worth a flip. Words and numbers, yes. Pictures? Hopeless.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The real numbers are a bigger infinity than the rational numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I scroll down until I find a set of numbers instead of a name. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Uhmma stares at the orange and white form filled with numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell her the numbers are digits of pi. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Zero never worked its way into ancient Western numbers, so it is unlikely that the omicron is the mother of our 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Only a few decades later, the astronomer Sir William Herschel confirmed this idea by painstakingly cataloging the positions and distances of vast numbers of stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as we moved through town, the numbers continued to climb as the neighborhoods changed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He pulled out a scrap of paper and a pen and scribbled some numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The dark things that were driven out in the year of the Dragon’s fall have returned in greater numbers, and Mirkwood is again an evil place, save where our realm is maintained. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

His poll numbers were suddenly even with or ahead of those of Al Gore and John Kerry, the Democrats’ previous two nominees—evidence of his potential. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But the numbers remained, declaring a truth unclouded by prejudice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And no one need fear that the numbers are being cooked either, since they appear in the prestigious Wall Street Journal, as well as in more plebeian papers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a toy safe opened by six secret numbers she stored letters and postcards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens probably also had a hard time talking behind each other’s backs—a much maligned ability which is in fact essential for cooperation in large numbers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those numbers, the fours and the threes and all that, yeah, add a "hundred" on the end, and then add a "meters" on the end of that. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

On either side stand people, dark, calling out the numbers of the brigades, the battalions. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow Ellington got her through a couple of numbers before she was hustled off the stage. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of numbers and words like deduction and revenue and net. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Though Helen had had little trouble understanding the purchase of the house, she found following these numbers harder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Spaniards arrived and then Indians died—in huge numbers, at incredible rates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Emily ran her finger along the numbers, counting in her head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The gypsy moth had reappeared there in numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The SS officers made us line up and tell them our names and numbers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Girls never want anything to do with a nutball little numbers freak like me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a vintage Rush 2112 concert T-shirt, and the numbers were warped around her large bosom. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The cinema man's lips twitch numbers as he paces down the pavement, slow as a coffin bearer. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the numbers on the map. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They loved their jobs, and they saw their own absorption reflected back at them in Katherines questions and her interest that went so far beyond just running the numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I can make my mark. I know numbers. Stuff like that.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another widespread misconception is that numbers depersonalize or somehow diminish individuality. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was smooth, pentagonal, with three display windows that all blinked with numbers. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

For a long time, Jean and I had enjoyed a standing, friendly deal that we’d go out and celebrate when either of us hit the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words and numbers I don’t understand fill them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other times their numbers swelled, and I’d see men hanging out of the windows, relaxing on the roof, urinating against the nursery’s mural wall. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As a society, we certainly appear to have an inordinate fondness for sheep and other livestock, to judge from the vast numbers of them that we keep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We crawl below the porches at numbers fourteen and eighteen Crispin Drive. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Were going to fine-tune the musical numbers this morning. Big ensemble numbers first, and then we’ll split into smaller groups. We break for pizza at noon, and after that, we run through the whole caboodle.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He used it to turn figures and shapes into equations and. numbers; with Cartesian coordinates every geometric object—squares, triangles, wavy lines—could be represented by an equation, a mathematical relationship. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was ashamed to have to admit that I had never played the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know I don’t like recipes,” she told her father, while her dinner went around and around and the little red numbers on the microwave oven counted down to zero. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Pinned to her blouse was a tag with words and numbers stenciled in large print: 115-201 London —»Sheffield Olive watched the girl cry until her own eyes began to shimmer with tears. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They will carry the phone numbers of friends in Miami and the life savings of relatives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few commercials, an announcer wearing a black and white suit with a bow tie at his neck comes on to say the winning numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If we received such a message we would deduce a civilization out there that was at least fond of prime numbers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But afterward, for the rest of the day, I was taught well those skills of numbers and words crucial to my Americanization. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Hayes took down names and phone numbers, I brought Philippe up to the minute on everything I knew. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he made me do my arithmetic homework in binary numbers because he said I needed to be challenged. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ostensible reason was that the numbers were easily changed and falsified. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was a complicated thing for children to understand, and it involved memorizing the squares of all numbers up to twenty-five. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such white people are the only hope for South Africa; the more their numbers increase, the better the chances for peaceful change. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bombs and rockets followed in intensifying numbers until the climax of the show, when an elaborate wire network erected at Festival Hall, on the lakeshore, abruptly flared into a giant explosive portrait of George Washington. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Astonishing numbers of white people called, and wrote, offering contributions, or asking could they join? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we can cover the infinite cohorts of rational numbers in the number line with a set of carpets, and the total size of the carpets is 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were numbers of these families and they got the good land of the valley and cleared the yellow mustard away and planted wheat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to focus on the Psi identification numbers on the top of my shoes to keep from jumping away again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The fireflies came out in such great numbers that no one could remember a summer with a more spectacular show. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Some tallied up numbers like card players: four marks down and one across, like little gates. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were stealing money and goods from the gas station, and they were operating in numbers that seemed designed to intimidate anyone, like Zeitoun, who might see them or try to impede them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Indeed, over time the Greeks reluctantly admitted the irrationals to the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the night the only sounds are the sounds I decide to make: writing numbers, spitting toothpaste, walking like a cat to my room, closing my bedroom door, flipping pages. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then correlate with math by switching to numbers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconnected by his little speech and he felt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, indigenous germs and food producers prevented Europeans from settling most of this region in significant numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The fishbowl was all lit up with numbers and light. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few time signatures don't have to be written as numbers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Introduced cattle and goats, kept in small numbers, suffer from tropical diseases, just as do European people themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Acorn and Pipkin, boasting that they were the best insect-catchers in the warren, brought in great numbers of beetles and grasshoppers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fjerdan guards were gesturing over their papers, trying to make the numbers and identities of the prisoners match up to the group before them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In Elizebeth’s day, huge numbers of these keys were often printed on pads of paper, but they could also be hidden on film, tapes, or parachute silk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our numbers evolved from the symbols that the Indians used; by rights they should be called Indian numerals rather than Arabic ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I walked toward the house, adding numbers as fast as I could. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"We have five times his numbers. You can take the Twins if you need to, Robb." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But this time, I needed a way to get the numbers onto something portable. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down at my list of recorded numbers that Zero had bet. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pat my pockets quickly and feel only the little phone numbers. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to Andrews and a dissenting California Supreme Court judge, the ruling didn’t prevent commercialization; it just took patients out of the equation and emboldened scientists to commodify tissues in increasing numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Why can't one of you give me a smaller waist? My numbers are bigger than yours." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There are diagrams, numbers, lines and charts—strings of words with terminal punctuation at the end—some are periods, some question marks, and none of it makes sense. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Colin had played with the Theorem so much that he knew from the numbers what it would look like, but he still went through the motions of plotting each point. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The act of bringing together after a difference, as in to reconcile numbers on a balance sheet; resolution. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She and I usually celebrate numbers winnings, and if this is going to be my last ride, I’ll at least go out in style. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who watches the lottery drawing every night on channel 11 without ever having played the numbers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And instead of numbers, they give the notes names, like "C." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I did all kinds of searches on those numbers—the ones on the bottom of the tombstone and on that license plate,” Ema said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I left them all the necessary telephone numbers where I could be reached and went ahead with my plans. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So that’s where they come from,” said Milo, looking in awe at the glittering collection of numbers. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding the bowl with the numbers in it, and she was watching me, too. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Rex Rollins claps at us again, to quiet the rumble, and Monica and Garret begin at one end of the room, near the smaller numbers. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For everyday numbers to make sense, they have to have something called the distributive property, which is best seen through an example. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we danced about four numbers, and then I turned off the radio. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The integers represented the purity of God, while the irrationals and other bizarre sets of numbers were abominations—figments of the imperfect human mind. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Egyptians, the Greeks outgrew this primitive way of writing numbers and developed a more sophisticated system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Plouffe, who at thirty-nine had a boyish smile and a deep love of numbers and strategy, would manage the overall campaign. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He remembered trying to find the moss, trying to count his footsteps, but he’d kept losing track of his numbers in his head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had convinced Stephanie that there was strength in numbers, and that splitting a ride three ways from school would cut our Lyft fare considerably. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Why, then, were they taking to their heels in such numbers that it was necessary to pass a law to compel them to enjoy the benefits they derived from slavery? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could count the number of people and count the number of seats and then compare the two numbers, but that would take a lot of time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

First we decided we wanted to count ten-centimeter-by-ten-centimeter squares, which was my suggestion after Mr. Terupt talked to us about sampling and how our government gets population numbers. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Gerald ran to the phone and punched the numbers with fear and ferocity. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The numbers. Three could stand for March. Fourth day. Nineteen thirty-two.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Otis never would have solved that one as fast as you did. But then again, Otis always said he was allergic to numbers.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Success was measured not in territory captured, but in numbers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see what knowing numbers had to do with farming, so I said, “You can do all that, Pa.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Alex turned away from the list of the dead and saw several pages of handwritten names, with phone numbers next to them. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As the numbers increase, a person is added to the bucket encircled by the clasped hands. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There was a small waiting area with seats and tables and two big doors with numbers over them. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of those people lived in shoreline communities, where rising numbers were beginning to change agriculture from an option to a necessity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In new territory, out of reach of the restraining hand of the natural enemies that kept down its numbers in its native land, an invading plant or animal is able to become enormously abundant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t peek now—and don’t skip any numbers,” warned Gloria, and scurried for cover. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But they did learn how to play with numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“We learned rather abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That is to say, for the purposes of the calculation one must measure time using imaginary numbers, rather than real ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you mean to put twelve for your age? Because the numbers are reversed, here—it says ‘twenty-one’—and I think that might not be true.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One objection I do have to identification numbers is their excessive length. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The referee summoned the Fugees to the line to go over their roster and to check their cleats and numbers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But then Kyle thought of something: “This is why Mr. Lemoncello called our time-out a bonus. He knew we’d need a ton of time to find a new source of numbers.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Now it was all just money and numbers and bad feelings. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and looked at the phone numbers on the wall, next to a framed picture of Mom and me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever the final numbers may be, they are just numbers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He types in a series of numbers on a keypad outside the next door, and it opens. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the coming days the newspapers printed the numbers for all to see, Martin said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were shouting—numbers, bets, odds—and laughing uproariously. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to say just why, but we humans love nice, round numbers with lots of zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

As she types in numbers, the line on the screen changes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My fingers are trembling as I press the numbers, and even more when her cell phone starts to ring. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic diseases of dense populations to evolve. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The white mobsters had the numbers racket split into specific areas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also had a symbol for five, indicating a mixed quinary-decimal system, but overall the Greek and Egyptian systems of writing numbers were almost identical—for a time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Given passenger pigeons’ Brobdingnagian appetites for mast and maize, one would expect that Indians would also have hunted them and wanted to keep down their numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet even those tiny carpets, all of which can fit in the span of an atom, cover all of the rational numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Some people personalize events excessively, resisting an external perspective, and since numbers and an impersonal view of the world are intimately related, this resistance contributes to an almost willful innumeracy. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon all traces of Dictionopolis had vanished in the distance and all those strange and unknown lands that lay between the kingdom of words and the kingdom of numbers stretched before them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, in Greek mathematics there was no significant distinction between shapes and numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There, they could talk Reynolds numbers and aeronautical shop and let their guard down about the challenges of their jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His preferred targets were pharmacies and “numbers joints.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the deepest infinity—nestled within the vast continuum of numbers—zero kept appearing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It had twelve hands but no numbers; instead, little planets were moving around the edge. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And every moment—for across the Hog’s Back the stream of traffic now flowed unceasingly—their numbers increased. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He focused on those numbers, making his steps match their cadence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

With a three-by-three grid and the numbers one to nine, the solution was always fifteen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Replanting through an immediate tree nursery and forestry program is being urged in communities that are losing large numbers of elms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She can’t bear to see the numbers moving forward, five to six, six to seven, seven to eight. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Six hundred feet, down at nineteen . . . Four hundred feet, down at nine . . . Three hundred feet . . . Watch our shadow out there,” called Buzz, repeating new numbers every few seconds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him the phone and the little black notebook where Baba had scribbled his Afghan friends’ numbers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The loudly buzzing syrphid fly, often mistaken for a bee, lays its eggs on leaves of aphis-infested plants; the hatching larvae then consume immense numbers of aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I tap the pen against my lips and think about other lucky numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A list handed out to us on our last day by the personnel department showed that it was purely a matter of numbers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of wealthy people traveled there and followed Kellogg’s nutty ideas about diet and health. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Nico,” Frank said, “keep trying to raise the dead. We need more numbers.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I pull up the list of numbers I’d recorded, explaining the system of small bets that Zero had been using to pass them along to his followers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the excitement of hurling the ball, she couldn’t remember how to say the higher numbers, especially after she had missed every ball when the other team called “eight.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s harder than you’d think to find clothes with prime numbers in them. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Those whose numbers had been noted were standing apart, abandoned by the whole world. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it nice the way numbers can keep you company?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Are you bringing numbers five and eight, you vagabond,” said Mr. Trabb to the boy after that, “or shall I kick you out of the shop and bring them myself?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And there’s safety in numbers, eh? Ten are more trustworthy than one. Excuse me, I shouldn’t use Karhidish, I forgot.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Using this sort of carpet to cover the rational numbers has some very odd consequences, as Cantor soon showed, thanks to his seating chart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I watched the house numbers until we got to the hundreds. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I scribbled out the numbers and started again. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father reads Natalie headlines from the newspaper, adding numbers to every one. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph watched with puzzled interest while the class worked with numbers and words. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those with higher numbers shift impatiently in their seats as they wait for the man with the notebook to reappear and politely call out the number on their respective slips of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now the cabbie and trucker were sitting on the cab hood exchanging phone numbers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The pen hovers over the numbers, unsure of where to go. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“But he need facts, numbers, to build aeroplane.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you just read the quarterly public water reports, as she had, the numbers were right there. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nor do many species of animals live in this rigorous land, but those creatures that do dwell here exist in bountiful numbers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine Goble had stood behind the engineers’ numbers for the past three years, and as humans bounded beyond the sky she would continue to do so. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She ain’t quite got up to seventeen in her numbers yet, but she know this be a big one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once she got the hang of figuring out money she saw numbers as money to be saved for the concert. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

That even this narrow hallway of a shop could be appropriated as the numbers swell. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I was counting the numbers off as if I was running down a huge flight of stairs, and staring at the color photos of a car crash on the front of the newspaper. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mild voice speaks numbers into the garret. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He pressed the numbers carefully, and was rewarded by the sound of a ringing telephone on the other end. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are more of them than there ever were, and their numbers are increasing every year. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a quaking hand I type in the numbers on the keypad. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Writing of numbers and individuation reminds me of companies which will name a star after anyone who pays a $35 fee. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They borrowed techniques from television commercials to teach children about numbers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did everything in even numbers, just as the legends said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had time to notice that Mengele had not written down their numbers. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Becker reviewed the output, but something about the numbers didn’t seem right to him. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the Greeks went overboard when it came to numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

These numbers are engraved twice on an oval metal disc we wear around our neck. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

More precisely, these ratios had to be written in the form a/b, where a and b were nice, neat counting numbers like 1, 2, or 47. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I saw a bunch of names and classroom numbers. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Because every fifteen minutes, the animated ceiling looped through call numbers for every Dewey decimal room in the library. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He could make out, on just one side of the package, at least three of his old A.P.O. numbers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Others bring a small Bible with telephone numbers, penciled in the margins, of their mothers or fathers or other relatives in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I draw the numbers 5 + 5 and 6 + 6 and 7 + 7. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There is sometimes safety in numbers; when you are alone, there are no witnesses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a square of size one, this means that we cannot choose counting numbers a and b such that the diagonal of the square can be expressed as a/b. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Tidings was in his glory in the parking lot, handing out numbers to each driver, gesturing with wide sweeps of his arms, getting everybody ready to line up. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And that the numbers one through ten were always on the top side. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Forgetfulness of nouns, for instance, or of numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers were flying too fast and furious. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he had finished all the operatic numbers, he stopped. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this ten-note example from Corelli, all the keyboard player has in front of him or her is the bass line notes, borrowed from the cello player, and those extra numbers above it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought that such a melange of black and white, male and female, blue-collar and white-collar workers, those who worked with their hands and those who worked with numbers, was actually possible? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Courtiers slam colorful gambling tokens on various numbers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But in a physical sense war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For one thing, turning concepts into numbers was a sort of anagramming to which he was unaccustomed. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Rees maintains that six numbers in particular govern our universe, and that if any of these values were changed even very slightly things could not be as they are. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then the two hunters would return and adjust the numbers again. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then he worked in the control room with me, watching the cameras and writing stupid programs that spelled out words on the screen or played guessing games with numbers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

That wears off, though, and by the time we leave math, which is just passing out the textbooks and a bunch of numbers chalked on the blackboard, you can hear the whispers in the hall. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

By giving me pairs of hex digits, they can send any character they like, including numbers, punctuation, etc. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Her Grace commanded us to make chainmail and armor, swords and daggers and axes, all in great numbers. For arming her new gold cloaks, m'lord." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I never memorized phone numbers or street names or learned anything more than was absolutely necessary about the town I lived in. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Sweet mercy, Prince O., I pray you, don’t torment your own self. You ain’t going to find a father through numbers.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He wrote out lists of the numbers he played along with the dates, so as not to repeat any. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Er—what else do you know about numbers?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read over the email and giggled at the nonsensical paragraph of letters and numbers and symbols at the end, courtesy of Fig’s rump. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

What I found seemed ancient, but I copied down the cell numbers for A.M. porters anyway and returned to W-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in the very central part of their range are they found today in quite large numbers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Adding numbers on an abacus is as simple as moving the stones up and down. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Before class, I’d have to recopy it into Arabic numbers, but one day I didn’t have time, so I turned in the assignment in its binary version. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The aunties will soon be calling our numbers for breakfast.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I add, subtract, multiply, divide all the numbers he throws at me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few feet before the parked police car is the subway entrance, marked with two tall green lamps and a black placard with the numbers four and six in green circles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the realm of numbers, multiplication is a stretch—literally. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

List upon list of phone numbers and email addresses were taped up to the lower half, interspersed with handwritten notes held up with thumbtacks pressed directly into the wall. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the simulator said my numbers were correct, and we reached the Agena. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dockers’ stand, men clicked stopwatches and jotted down numbers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the gays can take over our numbers and buy us things we need. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tap my toe 3 times to make the numbers fade away. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since they weren’t actual books with spines, none of the covers included their call numbers. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

As early as the sixteenth century, mathematicians were using numbers with i included—the so-called complex numbers—to solve cubic and quartic polynomials. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Within a decade of Tasmania’s settlement by Europeans with dogs, Aboriginal Tasmanians, who had never before seen dogs, began to breed them in large numbers for use in hunting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Number forty-five. Forty-fifth newchild this year. Just five more to come. Don't you remember? We all had numbers. I was Twenty-seven.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help the way numbers came together in his mind, automatic and sure. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I chanted the mantra even as we learned our letters and numbers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I would prefer to take all the Hunters. We will need strength of numbers.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I started counting prime numbers again: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11... The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her calculations were correct, based on the wrong numbers Becker had given her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Who ever sees dead birds, in anything like the huge numbers stipulated by the certainty of the death of all birds? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these numbers, i, held the key to zero’s strange properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

You write that down, then move on to the next set of numbers, until you have the whole message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since farming created the conditions for swift demographic growth, farmers could usually overcome foragers by sheer weight of numbers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she turned to Twig and Dari and asked for their parents’ phone numbers, and I knew the conversation was over. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Various numbers controllers, Small’s regulars, had offered me jobs as a runner. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Reggie, you are in a severe stage,” she told him after reviewing the numbers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thus imaginary numbers are in a sense numbers at right angles to ordinary real numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, it is unlikely that a large cat could survive in sufficient numbers to breed not just in one area but evidently all over New England and escape notice for nine decades. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers in my head start over again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Big Numbers, Small Probabilities People’s facility with numbers ranges from the aristocratic to the Ramanujanian, but it’s an unfortunate fact that most are on the aristocrats’ side of our old Mainer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in this century have we been brought close enough to each other, in great numbers, to begin the fusion around the earth, and from now on the process may move very rapidly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t say much to the cops, but I did manage to give them my parents’ names and phone numbers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But then again, so was I, when all I had to do was add and subtract for numbers less than ten. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

These numbers were astonishing to me and my staff, but the sad fact is that urban schools around the country were contending with epidemic levels of gun violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted to twist the little metal dial to those mysterious numbers that would magically open my locker. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

How was it that they could make mere numbers sound sharp? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Moreover, my planning for the event was complicated by the uncertainty as to the numbers involved. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They filed Elizebeth’s decrypts under new index numbers, making them look like their own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I tap my toe 3 times to keep the numbers quiet and to keep from running out the door. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d gotten pretty fast at addition problems using the complementary numbers, but her fingers still didn’t fly like the fingers of the other kids. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Do you have actual data to back that up? I wanna see some numbers.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As late as the seventeenth century, Descartes refused to accept negative numbers as roots of equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, algebraists learned to accept negative numbers as valid solutions to equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If the last three digits of the total value of stock sales match your numbers, you get to collect winnings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The general arrangements, though not the details, are familiar to us, though we’ve never seen so many mice in one place before and are awed by their numbers and stench. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was good with numbers and clever with his hands and could build a comfortable bench for a tired Elder as quick as breathing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I look up to check again, the numbers fade into dancing cats singing about kitty litter. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

No official body count, no reliable numbers of physical assaults, and no definitive records of worker jailings without due process truly document the violence of the struggle for workers’ rights. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Those Maori who remained in New Zealand increased in numbers until there were more than 100,000 of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I dropped a sign or added two numbers wrong, I might never wake up. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school had sent us a computerized schedule that showed my six periods, teachers’ names, and classroom numbers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cadmium was chosen for its ability to absorb huge numbers of neutrons. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little papers with the numbers, they are not there! Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

That seating chart accounts for all the rational numbers—it assigns each of them a seat—so we can count them off one by one, in order, based on their seat number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“But our numbers are not a fraction of what they were. We have fallen into near extinction. Do any of you know what became of the peculiar animals that once roamed the world?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She liked the way he sometimes saw the world in numbers, she liked the way he walked. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

During this period, total sales of The Autobiography of Malcolm X reached record numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third line of the cycle contains an X and numbers 2, 0, and 3, which are also guides to counting the cycle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was a paperback prose translation, abridged, set loose from its numbers, robbed of the music of the ancient Greek but—as far as I was concerned—still a terrific read. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Winston dialed “back numbers” on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of the Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes’ delay. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He showed me the receipt stapled to one of the bags, because sometimes with numbers it was hard to understand what Wei was saying. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t say nothing about the fact that I’m a math whiz, and can outdo ninth graders when it comes to figuring numbers. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had to dial about twenty numbers before I got the right one. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He’s typing in a command, pressing his thumb to the screen for print recognition, speaking a string of letters and numbers in response to a prompt. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We know a fair amount about the early factors in the equation, the numbers of stars and planetary systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men, and larger animals such as wolves, usually have an idea of their own numbers and those of the enemy and this affects their readiness to fight and how they go about it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It took a little while,” he continued, “But I finally figured out I had some extra numbers and letters there...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like imaginary numbers, we can’t see them or feel them or smell them, even though they are necessary for doing calculations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Any way I can get yours and Johnny’s phone numbers to talk to you after you leave?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The elevator starts moving, and I stare at the numbers going down. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Both numbers are tallied for the final event score, with anything above fifteen points usually in medal range. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Today, Australia is populated and governed by 20 million non-Aborigines, most of them of European descent, plus increasing numbers of Asians arriving since Australia abandoned its previous White Australia immigration policy in 1973. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This shifting front of rich ocean, about twenty-five miles wide, is the most fertile ecosystem in the world, supporting awesome numbers of fish, seabirds, seals, and whales. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Each number is the sum of the two numbers before it. Thirteen plus eight equals twenty-one.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In this age of electricity and modem heating systems, there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me put it this way. You like numbers, right? You want to lay a bet with me right now?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a half century from now, our replacements will have more than doubled the numbers. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No numbers or letters or symbols printed around either one or hidden inside. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dad came back with a million numbers scribbled all over a pad of paper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The numbers were staggering, a visceral reminder of the war’s tragic cost. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Over and over he crosses out symbols and numbers, discards books in favor of others, and then returns to the discarded ones again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it does not, and while I couldn’t crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear that marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Constant burning of undergrowth increased the numbers of herbivores, the predators that fed on them, and the people who ate them both. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing that he did as Deputy Mayor was to reduce the Shirriffs to their proper functions and numbers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They’re full of numbers and words and arrows and lines that connect the dots of stars into constellations I’ve never seen before. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then, we all laughed because we knew we could get in trouble for swearing, but the strength of our numbers would prevent any retribution. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The simplest was a three-by-three square, with the numbers 1 to 9 arranged so that every row, column and diagonal added up to 15. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few researchers today accept Dobyns’s estimates—they seem extreme—but most believe that native numbers were far higher than estimated by previous generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A high wooden platform had been erected there and on it stood a barking instructor, giving the rows of men below him calisthenics by the numbers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I have decided to give my chapters prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7,11, 13 and so on because I like prime numbers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I leave the safety of our numbers and crouch near the photograph, watching her the whole time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was as if my world had multiplied many times in size, numbers, and wealth. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were just too many numbers—daily grades, weekly grades, grades for participation, grades for homework, grades for tests—all part of the bewildering Carter grading system under the School Improvement Plan. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we’ve noted, a defense against this tendency is to look at bald numbers, to provide some perspective. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Forgive me! Of course you need to know the terms. I am utterly hopeless with numbers, but Lord Ashton drew this up for your perusal before he left for business this morning.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They formed outlawed youth groups and gangs in greater numbers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I get a pencil and paper and copy a few phone numbers so I can get started. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she thinks in numbers the whole way. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

You too can make up your own very large numbers and give them strange names. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When tallying numbers, the Babylonians arranged them into columns, as children learn to do today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Increasing their numbers was labor-intensive: scientists had to repeatedly scrape the cells from one tube and split them into new ones to give them more space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I knew there were refugees, but I had no clue about the numbers.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And to Pythagoras the connection between shapes and numbers was deep and mystical. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My brain holds on to numbers, though, and I dial his from memory. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I intend to call the numbers on the cards, but it’s something to collect. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Grant the dear boon of life to this most uncommon tiggy, lordly measter, and he shall sing to thee in numbers sweet or teach ’ee how to suck cow’s milk in the pearly dew.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Playing my hunches, many a day I’d have up to forty dollars on two numbers, hoping for that fabulous six hundred-to-one payoff. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave her phone numbers to call if she needed help. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the egg parasites are exceedingly minute wasps, yet by their numbers and their great activity they hold down the abundance of many crop-destroying species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The program’s success requires police to stop “staggering” numbers of people in shotgun fashion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nor did the varying numbers of the dead: three thousand, ten thousand, fifty thousand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some weeks, I bet large amounts on the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it seemed like it should be a good thing, that I didn’t have that long-word-x reading disorder, that my brain didn’t mix up letters and numbers on the page. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Zeno’s troubling paradox was explained away by banishing infinity and zero from the realm of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It's like the less numbers in your bank account, the more numbers in your address. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Since we couldn’t read or do numbers, he might also been cheating us.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the names of numbers in Hindi, the most commonly spoken language in India. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Estimation is generally not taught either, aside from a few lessons on rounding off numbers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, the numbers in the sequence get closer and closer to zero; naively, one would guess that this would ensure that the sum remains finite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Several days later, starting linebackers Ivory Christian and Chad Payne found jersies with the numbers of Irving Nimitz’s starting running backs on them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you take away all the numbers that are multiples of 3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the point is, numbers are what I understand. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, I don’t suppose there was a key to those numbers, was there? Or an explanation of the diagram?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

For not only were the numbers becoming wholly unmanageable, but the further one got from 1776, the lower the revolutionary fires burned and the less imperative the logic of the revolutionary ideology seemed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“So far Caleb and I are the only members, but given how easy it is to get on that girl’s bad side, I’m sure our numbers will grow.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Students were given 56 pairs of numbers and told to add them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The boy may hang back or lose his courage when he sees our numbers," Lord Tywin replied. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ryan sat down and began to shuffle books and papers while Miss K talked about numbers. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“All Sunshine Buddies have each other’s numbers. Who cares?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was through this invasion that Indian mathematicians first learned about the Babylonian system of numbers—and about zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Getting hung up on the numbers on your birth certificate when you probably saved a life.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He rotated the paper, gazed at it for a moment, and began to scrawl, numbers and circles and great, arcing lines that doubled back on themselves. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I look around, trying to calculate our current situation, but the numbers just aren’t adding up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had more than tripled their numbers with all the imps they had reclaimed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Nineteen, thirty-one, twenty-seven, fourteen, thirty-nine. This week’s lucky numbers are ten, fourteen, nineteen, twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-nine. Thank you for playing Superlotto.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He thought of words that began with J and numbers that end in 3. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher commenced pointing at each fish and calling out numbers and telling me to keep track of the total. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I see his eyes—both the live one and the dead one—in the numbers of the ticking clock, in the motivational posters on the walls. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s numbers industry hummed every morning and into the early afternoon, with the runners jotting down people’s bets on slips of paper in apartment house hallways, bars, barbershops, stores, on the sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s also important to remember that undocumented immigrants with work permits and Social Security numbers do in fact pay taxes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She inserted the coins and slowly dialed the numbers, hoping he’d go away. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet has a screen in her hands with a long list of numbers on it, and she reads them to Jack, who programs them into his screen. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Poli played the numbers the next day and then forgot them. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such subterranean tunnelers as shrews and moles capture them in some numbers, and then perhaps pass on the poison to predators such as screech owls and barn owls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ants and bees can also work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of exchanging phone numbers just terrifies me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been looking at our budget. I can’t make the numbers work. The discounted rent for my superintendent duties makes a huge difference.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

That is what we began to call it, as our numbers dwindled. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly pulled the phone away from my face and stared at the numbers. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s soft and thin under my fingers, full of notes and numbers. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At the center of each was a unique symbol that corresponded to a legend at the bottom of the page, where the symbols reappeared next to a list of numbers separated by dashes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She punched a string of numbers on the key pad, and the building’s central computer noticed that Jaax Nancy was attempting entry. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers really stood out against the bright white of the worksheet. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

She looked at the glowing numbers on her clock: it was only 11:48. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

A great deal of time is required, even after a single spraying, for most of these insects to build up sufficient numbers to support a normal salmon population — time measured in years rather than months. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were the kind of numbers Uncle Holt would have written in red ink. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When we filed an application through my uncle, my sister and I were finally issued work permits, which we were able to use to obtain our own Social Security numbers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Yes, he was there among our numbers too. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was used to me throwing out numbers and calculating everything. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The number-shape duality in Greek numbers made it easy; after all, zero didn’t have a shape and could thus not be a number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then Grandpop said, “I’m joking. 646-555-8349. I can tell you your daddy’s cell, your mama’s cell, and their work numbers too, if you like, boss. And your address.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When she looked at the numbers on the scale, she pursed her lips and frowned. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each passing year, the refugee numbers increased. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Only think of the numbers and you won’t think of anything else.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But then the law of large numbers started to kick in, and the pace of doubling slowed. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“On the day the electorate, as expected in polls, was voting in unprecedented numbers against bombing North Vietnam or otherwise escalating the war, we were working to set such a policy in motion,” Ellsberg recalled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dad and I check the departure times on a board that changes by flipping numbers and making this ticking noise. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only groups that didn’t run numbers based on testing worked in the small Theoretical and Physical Research Division and the Stability Research Division—the “no-air” engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tiny blue numbers scattered around the map matched up with business names listed in the margins. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“How did you—” But then I remember the numbers Finch gave him, written so neatly, so carefully. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

TJ spun the black lock dial confidently, like he could feel the difference in the grooves and would know when he landed on the right numbers. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I know it sounds odd, but I much prefer numbers to words. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you look in the eastern forests, trees are dying in colossal numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

These numbers, pulled by the tug of both zero and infinity, spiral around on the equator forever and ever, never able to escape the grasp of either. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The man who sold it to her said that the less expensive ones with bogus numbers wouldn’t get past background checks and college applications. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Famous people. Smart people. It just means your eyes mix up letters and numbers sometimes, and it would explain why you sometimes have trouble reading.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Chapters in books are usually given the cardinal numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once you got into the teens, your intelligence was in question, especially as the numbers rose to the high teens. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Lina spread out the big lacy piece and saw that on one edge of it, which was still intact, was a column of numbers. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later in life I learned that the way many governors projected the numbers of beds they’d need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores of third graders. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"Stone walls cannot be fired. How are we to take them? We do not have the numbers to storm even a small castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Because if she did not have her mind on numbers this terrible afraidness came in her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I would go back to the past, like a couple years ago, with the winning lottery numbers for my mom. Change the game up for us.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And it was a system that Indians were abandoning in ever-rising numbers at the time when Europeans came. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The overwhelming military superiority of even tiny numbers of mounted Spaniards, together with their political skills at exploiting divisions within the native population, did the rest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead we stood at attention, our feet sinking into the freezing mud while they called our numbers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I skip a day playing numbers—or maybe a zoot payment or two—I can scrape up a train fare. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was 10 p.m. exactly—Finn had watched the numbers change on the digital clock in his room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It took reciting all twenty-five prime numbers under one hundred, but I didn’t get angry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius watched as Mr. Clyde jotted some numbers on a pad. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid, Percy, that today has been something of a draw. We didn’t have the strength of numbers to take that ship. Luke was not organized enough to pursue us. Nobody won.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, their numbers were so great in some areas that theater owners had to relax rules segregating black patrons and restricting them to certain areas of the theater. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the map was covered with a grid and each square of the grid had two numbers on it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He and his followers believed that numbers were the ruling principle of the universe, and that musical harmonies were a basic expression of the mathematical laws of the universe. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s clear how the above property of numbers led to Archimedes’ famous pronouncement that given a fulcrum, a long enough lever, and a place to stand, he alone could physically lift the earth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only three numbers besides my own that I’ve memorized: My parents’ cells. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They do not have each other’s phone numbers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Add two and zero and you get two; it is as if you never bothered to add the numbers in the first place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s absurd,” objected Milo, whose head was spinning from all the numbers and questions. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phone numbers that have been scratched out with keys. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

More than 5,000 years ago, before the time of the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians designed a system for transcribing their decimal system, where pictures stood for numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But he hears no birth or wedding or death announcements, no numbers, no music. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once numbers shed their geometric significance, mathematicians no longer had to worry about mathematical operations making geometric sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The genius had written the numbers on a piece of tape and hung it in plain view— where else—inside his locker. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

All my numbers were divided by or multiplied by seven. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then all the numbers would come out right, and figuring out the child’s age would be a simple matter of subtracting – 4 from 2. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I'm five ten, weigh 160 pounds, my social security number is nine randomly selected numbers, and I turned twenty-two last month. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t many of our people left by 1876,” Grandpa Nyles explained, “compared to the sheer numbers of whites. There were probably twenty thousand Lakota. At the same time, there were twenty-five million white people.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He is the sort who makes lists and numbers his arguments. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Others prefer scientific pitch notation, which simply labels the octaves with numbers, starting with C1 for the lowest C on a full-sized keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, they saw the interplay of numerals—numbers stripped of their geometric significance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The first thing I did was to write all the numbers down, from one to five hundred, in my notebook. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

What comes to mind is a row of numbers across his chest. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cashier entered the numbers one more time as Fadi held his breath. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She had watched Grandma open it an hour ago, heard her speak the numbers aloud. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And I worked out that the numbers were the numbers of the pages where you could see a bigger-scale map of that square of London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I hop in the shower it occurs to me that a few weeks ago I would have been ecstatic to have multiplied numbers in my head. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They only attacked when they had vastly superior numbers, and usually under the cover of darkness. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The voice was a man’s and he was reading numbers and dates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She delivered the finished assignment to him just as she completed her work for Dorothy Vaughan, double-checking all numbers, confident that they were correct. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

All other intervals are given by irrational numbers based on the twelfth root of two, not nice numbers that can be written as a ratio of two small whole numbers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was alarmed at the growing numbers of teenagers who resisted the Hitler Youth system. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I immediately look back down at the glaring digital numbers on the bike, trying to ignore the red creeping slowly up my face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Never wanted to recite my 7s like a baby in front of all those kids who could figure any old numbers they cared to. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ten, fifty, one hundred and one, those were all numbers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Everyone understands numbers. No matter what language you speak, they always mean the same thing. A seven is a seven anywhere in the world.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the third week of my vanishing, friends and relatives stopped coming over to Middlesex in such numbers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even though he's sort of handsome now, he's still a numbers geek who wants to be a computer scientist. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were lined up in row upon row while the Nazis checked the numbers on our uniforms against the tally on their clipboards. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They thought about numbers a lot, and shapes, and the size of the universe. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In these cases, one mixes pseudorandom numbers from several computers, then incorporates the physical indeterminacy of randomly fluctuating voltages from a “white noise” source. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each library cart was labeled with two laminated cards: one with the name of a team, the other designating a range of Dewey decimal numbers. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two per cent of the population of Oceania. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In theory, a detective in Cincinnati could telegraph a few distinctive numbers to investigators in New York with the expectation that if a match existed, New York would find it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They bought up advance seats at an unprecedented pace, packed into special trains, and crammed into the track in record numbers to see the horse they called “the Great Traveler.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mythical glue that binds together large numbers of individuals, families and groups. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than let myself get lost in that feeling, I cracked open my mathematics textbook, which was like a jolt of caffeine—seeing the numbers and problems dance before me was like greeting old friends. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at a table of measurements of white shark teeth with its tall columns of numbers for height, width, and angle. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Different nations had different numbers of sachems, but the inequality meant little because all decisions had to be unanimous; the Five Nations regarded consensus as a social ideal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I look at my phone and see several missed calls from all their numbers. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Pinned with numbers from the Giulia's manifest, they’d filed past a line of health inspectors who’d looked in their eyes and ears, rubbed their scalps, and flipped their eyelids inside out with buttonhooks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s worried if our numbers get down too low, there won’t be enough people here to protect the camp.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Delsa looked up from the numbers she wrote in her composition book. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

At first the dreams were just numbers and words and bits from science class. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t try to count, but the numbers automatically tallied up in his head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stripped of phone numbers and destinations, many of the children become stranded at the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I took the paper to my desk and sat down with a pencil and forced myself through the tangle of numbers step by step. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few large pieces of furniture people would pick up the next day wore red tags with names and phone numbers on them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer takes the wife’s blood pressure, too, at her request—her numbers are high as well. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Dead earthworms had been seen in numbers after a gentle rain; probably the robins had fed on the poisoned worms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I gathered up my leaf samples and placed them in my notebook, labeled with numbers from one to five. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Even though I know there is nothing there but the too-small-to-steal phone numbers, I dig my hands into my pockets. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Peering out through the numbers, Hugo spied the old man again, alone in his toy booth at the end of the hallway, looking through the pages of Hugo’s notebook. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what to make of their numbers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Me: "The rule of nines. If you add up all those numbers, the body parts, you get ninety-nine percent. What's the other one percent?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Especially if those things were numbers or an argument. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A chorus of numbers filled the air as if The Vigil members were calling bids at a weird auction. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking through the numbers, Hugo could see the Station Inspector’s desk, and in the corner of the office, the cage of a small jail cell that sat waiting for any criminals caught in the station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The ability to create an imagined reality out of words enabled large numbers of strangers to cooperate effectively. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Europeans did not begin to learn about Arabic numbers until much closer to the time this drawing was made, around A.D. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of trying to measure the area inside a parabola as the Greeks did, early algebraists sought to find the solutions to equations that encode relationships between different numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"I ran the numbers. They all check out. It is brilliant course. Amazing." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month before launch, we all got tattoos of our "Mars numbers." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why not Mayan and Aztec societies, which were accomplished in astronomy and captivated, as the Indians were, by large numbers? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept all their phone numbers on hand and called them personally to sway their opinions and make each one feel like a privileged insider with a sensational scoop. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next class seemed to be on the other side of campus, and I was trying to figure out where I was—cross-checking room numbers against my new class schedule—when the final bell rang. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She claims that some people who work with numbers sometimes get creative.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But the numbers prove...the numbers let me believe, at least, that it's all less likely to happen to me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

An infinite sum of numbers can be infinite, even if the numbers themselves approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Pi was always 3.14, with an endless string of other numbers behind it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I merely felt drawn in by those rattling, loose numbers needing their call to order. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the night I heard him talking numbers out of his dreams: weights, days, distances.... The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It destroyed countless numbers of my people as well as yours. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In fact, knowing about numbers at all was quite an ability in prehistoric times. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In every ghetto you see alarming numbers of young men with felony convictions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I need them to not kill each other long enough that I can finish playing with numbers from the Pet Hut. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The COD, though small and limited mainly to Johannesburg and Cape Town, had an influence disproportionate to its numbers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then we just clear off,” grins Leer, "he can try to read our regimental numbers here,” and smacks his behind. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives me Nia’s and Aaron’s and the teacher’s numbers; I write them down on a scrap of paper that Smitty has given me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Call numbers, Miss Cook told me, and she explained how they work. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I almost didn’t answer him but since I didn’t want to look so stupid I said, “Yes, sir, but mine have writing and numbers on them too.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Fellow juniors! Nice to have solidarity in numbers,” Stephanie said as though she were campaigning for next year’s student council election. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I love numbers, and I love math. My brain is high-functioning when it comes to numbers. Um...actually, I’m a genius. A math genius.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers men murmur in groups, shake one another’s hands. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our friend Ashley added, “Also, yesterday somebody posted our phone numbers in the boys’ bathroom with—well, with dirty stuff.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made sure she knew all the bank numbers, customer service numbers, passwords, credit card numbers, and codes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Emily repeated the numbers, but once again the recording came on halfway through the call. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Positive numbers if the girl is more outgoing; negative if the guy is. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“They are exceptional,” said Tock, who had a special fondness for numbers. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked around the city center, the numbers of people and cars increased. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be reading house numbers as she walked along. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Just as we can write 0.5 for 1/2 and 0.75 for 3/4, the Babylonians used the numbers 0;30 for 1/2 and 0;45 for 3/4. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The face of the clock becomes a darker grey, and then black, with twinkling stars where the numbers had been previously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And the messy apartment I was sure to walk into; the flight numbers and so forth left deliberately, so it now seemed, by the phone; both were oversights unworthy of Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers on the slate jiggled but he gulped and began to work. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, if you looked at our legs, mine were about half the size of his stilt-like numbers. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Three: my good old friends the prime numbers. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The electromagnetic attraction is pictured as being caused by the exchange of large numbers of virtual massless particles of spin 1, called photons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On which numbers will spell out a death sentence. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman: “Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decided this? Does algebra move you to tears?” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We hand over our tokens, and one Guardian enters the numbers on them into the Compubite while the other gives us our purchases, the milk, the eggs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they were dollar amounts or cargo numbers, one way or another they all traced back to human beings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After the lineup Anatole marches them into the church and urges them, I guess, to wrestle with their numbers and their French congregations and what not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, the numbers themselves seemed solid, obdurate, much less fun. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you know it was the church? You memorize phone numbers?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After all, I don’t know those Bostonians or San Franciscans or Kansans who have taken ill; the numbers, though alarming, held no personal arithmetic. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A Nazi came around, checking our numbers against a clipboard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is how you work out what prime numbers are. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Negative numbers came up all the time in solving equations, such as quadratic equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Newton disliked infinitesimals, the little os in his fluxion equations that sometimes acted like zeros and sometimes like nonzero numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Although newspapers had embellished incidents and inflated the numbers of panicked people, their stories weren’t totally wrong. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As they entered the main door on Fifth Avenue, the guard clicked off two numbers on his people counter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would begin to circle, a chain linked loosely, and over the next hour their numbers would grow. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, our troops were overpowered by the superior numbers of the Rhodesian forces. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This time we told people which glass was Christian Brothers and which glass was E & J. Now you are having sensation transference from the name, and this time Christian Brothers’ numbers are up.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But the endless stream of letters and symbols and numbers in Mom’s letter made no sense to Emma at all. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The doomed fish of Flint Creek included large numbers of white crappies, a favorite among anglers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She just started learning numbers, and so everything she sees, she counts up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Then you take away all the numbers that are multiples of 2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I shout, and hurry to fill in the numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She rattled off a bunch of numbers that the other humans cheered. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The registrar gives us our papers and a card with a grid of tear-off numbers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I daydream about audition numbers pinned to my leotard. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because three is shy, four is rude, and two is, like, your buddy. I hated taking math in school because I always felt bad making numbers who didn’t like each other work together.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “True, if you figure a tenth by numbers, but I was thinking of figuring a tenth by age. Let me hold on to both of those stringers for a minute.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

These numbers come from research led by the Johns Hopkins University sociologist Karl Alexander. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I write my resolution in black Sharpie marker on top of a background made out of cut-up scriptures, words from newspaper headlines, and numbers from last year’s calendar. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

However, human beings who shared its habitat found it annoying because of its sheer numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I put holes like where clock numbers go. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Ma’s good with numbers, Pa. She could teach you.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t have any friends because I don’t have their numbers memorized. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Having heard me, out of my head, babbling telephone numbers, they have already passed news of me to my family. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the day went on, their numbers were increased by more job seekers looking to take advantage of the opportunity to replace strikers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Dad Hello Good”—that’s not “Hello” again — that’s “Hallow” or “Hollow”? And then some numbers—these are clearer— “3—1 — 1—0—8—1.” Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

These numbers show why people with limited money to spend on food spend it on the cheapest calories they can find. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He pulls out his phone and keys numbers rapidly into the calculator function. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Such buildings made perfect places for crack houses and numbers joints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“By the way,” said Dr. Zinchenko, “to make this game more challenging, we have temporarily covered up all the call numbers on the spines of the books in the bins.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only the little red broken-line numbers on her alarm clock cut the darkness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Remember the chocolate cake study, the one that looked at the nutrition choices made by someone asked to remember numbers? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That’s how numbers work in rugby: a player doesn’t pick his number,his position on the team determines that, and it’s something that never gets messed with. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were oversize black-and-white numbers taped to hallway walls, signs screaming at passersby to count down the days until the first game of the season. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

While daunting, these numbers were not fiscally impossible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

While the Irukandji lives in large numbers off the coast of Australia, Irukandji-like symptoms have been experienced as far north as the British Isles, and in Hawaii, Florida, and Japan. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I was four years old my parents made me practice writing my name, numbers, and made me memorize the colors. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In either case, with the slightest tweaking of the numbers the universe as we know and need it would not be here. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She’s made easy friends with her coworkers, since competence translates directly to popularity in the campaign social culture, and nobody’s better at numbers than her. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that he didn’t believe they could form a solid argument—she was right: the numbers spoke for themselves. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Brandon had run a search like this before, but they had been looking for numbers related to sports. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In middens around Yellowstone National Park, he said, they first show up in large numbers about five hundred years ago, the time of the great epidemics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Numbers had finally become distinct from geometry; numbers were used to do more than merely measure objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The crawlers had numbers—huge numbers, compared with the humans. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she unfolded a yellow Western Union form from her pocket and began reading out the numbers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A thousand numbers, in a particular order, and you have to hold it all in your head. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers that are left are the prime numbers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And contrary to countless barroom conversations, the law of large numbers doesn’t imply the gambler’s fallacy: that a head is more likely after a string of tails. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers, the equivalent of today’s lottery, were the dreams of Harlem and Mama’s only hope to do more with the little money Dad gave her each week. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dead rabbits, muskrats, opossums, and fish were also found in numbers, and one of the local schools made the collection of insecticide-poisoned birds a science project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Four hundred and three, four hundred and four, stupid numbers, stupid night. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who has taken geometry in high school has seen them: they are the sets of numbers in parentheses that represent a point in space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Consider, too, the Dobynsesque procedure for recovering original population numbers: applying an assumed death rate, usually 95 percent, to the observed population nadir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Greeks, the Indians did not see squares in square numbers or the areas of rectangles when they multiplied two different values. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mirabelle usually woke them at sunrise, crying for breakfast, for a new diaper, and she knew as soon as she saw the red numbers on the clock that something was very wrong. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For most cases, the pseudorandom numbers generated by computers are good enough. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has happened also because, for reasons to be described later, destructive insects often undergo a “flareback,” or resurgence, after spraying, in numbers greater than before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

What they discovered were new examples of nuclear isomerism, in which isotopes of identical mass numbers and changes show dramatically different radioactive characteristics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Rachelle’s mouth moves and her hand glides over the board, drawing funny shapes and numbers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He was wrong about the population counts . . . sort of. The numbers don’t document all the factionless—only certain ones. And I’ll bet you can guess which ones those are.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a magic square, a grid was filled with a consecutive set of numbers so every row, column, and diagonal added up to the same number. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For instance, the number 2.5 is “covered” by a carpet that includes, for example, all the numbers between 2 and 3—a carpet of size 1. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

My mother stuck with her classes, trying not to break down in biology and doing her best to keep the numbers straight in calculus. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was not the size or demeanor of the bears that troubled me—they looked almost comically unaggressive, like four guys who had gotten a Frisbee caught up a tree—but their numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Platters of duck and partridge, rabbit and bird eggs, and seasoned venison passed by in dizzying numbers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But insecticides and weed killers are brought into intimate contact with large numbers of people. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The numbers of incarcerated people with serious mental illness declined dramatically, while public and private mental health facilities emerged to provide care to the mentally distressed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I just kept looking at the numbers and they didn’t mean nothing to me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil spent his hour with Ms. Giegrich, learning about numbers, and Valencia spent her time with Mr. King, although Virgil wasn’t sure what Valencia needed to learn; she seemed pretty smart. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She compares her numbers to the computer’s numbers and punches in a bunch of decimals for our commission. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the word spread, numbers of persons who had come before returned for another wait in the long, slowly moving line, wanting to see the Moslem burial dress. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I totted up numbers this way and that. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I was upset, calculating the area of a triangle, or adding up columns of numbers, or reciting pi always helped me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dig into my pocket for the telephone numbers so important to me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She went over each section of each page several times, yet still felt she was not being thorough enough; certain numbers seemed to her to be mysteriously reappearing, like mildew. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Math was my specialty—you spend enough time at the cash register and you learn to love numbers, because each and every one means dollars and cents, and enough of those mean business is booming. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere between numbers 1 and 5. They’d heard ‘talk,’ but they weren’t sure it was true.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Olmsted was awed by the sheer numbers of workers involved. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Every day, the little gray-furred beasts would scurry tormentingly through the branches that hung outside the nursery windows, which threw all Penelope’s attempts to teach odd and even numbers into chaos. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In every case, those who watched ABC voted for Reagan in far greater numbers than those who watched CBS or NBC. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fifth period, my head is swimming with numbers and equations, and getting to make something pushes that all away. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We would get our social security numbers and green cards three months after our arrival in the States. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Aside from the mayor, the committee was made up of twenty-six individuals, though illness and death soon reduced their numbers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It asks my birthdate and address, my parents’ names and phone numbers, my health insurance. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Our father praised Laertes’ schoolwork, but when I showed him my neat rows of numbers, he only patted my head as if I were his dog. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A couple of years before, he’d hit the numbers and bought a saxophone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the first ten prime numbers—numbers divisible only by themselves and by one—are 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11,13, 17,19, 23. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This number was so large that the Greek system of numeration was unable to handle it; Archimedes had to invent a whole new method of denoting really huge numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She holds the checkbook up to her face, moving her lips, feeling her way among the numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Get the girl to check the numbers,” said the astronaut. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This is the reason that telephone numbers have seven digits. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

More numbers: There are more than five hundred miles of Montana yet to go. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“All right, MIT,” he says, “what are the numbers on this one?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The mainlanders were coming over in numbers now and would be looking for lobster tails to bait their hooks. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The equivalence of numbers and shapes made the ancient Greeks the masters of geometry, yet it had a serious drawback. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about imaginary numbers, plane geometry, and vector algebra, Jake?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Servants drape tape-ribbons along our waists and arms and legs, and scribble numbers on parchment pages. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Let him measure his affection in numbers. What he calls love deserves not the name!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Without friends and a packed schedule to keep me busy, keeping track of time and numbers has become a prime source of entertainment. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Twenty-three watchmen were supposed to patrol the city’s streets every night, but their numbers had dwindled to a mere handful by the end of the week. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Highway 19 and 129, which despite having two numbers was really just a back road through a high pass between wooded nowheres. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out my phone and scroll through the numbers until I get to Kim’s number, which I put into my phone under the name Pizza in case anyone found it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Nineteen forty-one," says Helmuth, rolling over the feel of the numbers in his mouth, and for a moment the new year hangs there, ripe with hope and possibility. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, we can remove an infinite number of elements from the set of whole numbers—we can delete the odd numbers, for example—and the size of the set remains unchanged. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"It's the Taiyang Sheris booster, sir. Our engineers have run the numbers, and it has enough fuel for a Mars injection orbit. It could get there in four hundred and nineteen days." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would show the visitors how we could type, send the Morse code, multiply numbers, and speak some French, German, and Italian. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Roy show was tested by the Sesame Street research staff and the numbers were very disappointing. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured he was yelling out random numbers. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He counted numbers on his fingers as if he were making lists. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Gulls and crows in equal numbers follow a tractor through its wake of dust. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The green numbers on the stove say it’s now ten thirty at night. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I see birds in great numbers,” replied the repairman. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He took the photo and put it up in the dash part where the speed numbers are. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Looks seem rather important, as does the ability to enlighten, disappoint, and control great numbers of people who always seem to be American. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Which organ? She has too many involved. The numbers add up fast. They said she is beyond saving.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I type in the password for today, a string of thirty-five jumbled letters, numbers, and symbols. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Notes with a close relationship have frequencies that can be written as a ratiol2 of two small whole numbers; the smaller the numbers, the more closely related the notes are. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Cardinal strain was definitely a hot agent—it killed the cells in vast numbers, and it killed them fast. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They waited patiently in a ring around the building while their numbers increased, more hovercars landing every minute. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Max had made all the partners exchange phone numbers, so she had Rishi’s in her contacts already. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some doors were labeled with store names, others with numbers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But the Allied forces had superior numbers and equipment, and the Normandy campaign proved disastrous for the Germans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Reducing a complex intelligence or the economy to numbers on a scale, whether I.Q. or GNP, is myopic at best and many times simply ludicrous. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees prospered, the grazers were healthy, and even if once in a while the tualapi came, our numbers and theirs remained constant. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They went to Kenny and they came to Selvam and they even approached me, his mother, and from the numbers who came I soon knew that not one-tenth could enter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But states had been doing all these things for thousands of years without getting the numbers right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mama started playing the numbers, and I learned how to get the winning number from the radio by adding up the race results. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Some day, Miss Lucy told Cora one afternoon while they walked the green, all the numbers and figures and notes would make a great contribution to their understanding of colored life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

To be fair, I knew many men who had registered, as required, but their numbers had not yet been called. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Each tool was numbered, and he called the numbers out loud. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For seven months Dorothy Vaughan had apprenticed as a mathematician, growing more confident with the concepts, the numbers, and the people at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Thirteen numbers, same as the phone number on the clue,” she said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The numbers come in, and Windy stays out. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are an infinite number of rationals, and between any two numbers you choose, no matter how close together, there are still an infinite number of rationals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists generally render these as a series of five numbers separated by dots, in the manner of Internet Protocol addresses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, I’m more than just numbers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He walks among the palm trees, oblivious, whistling, his head sheathed in a halo of invisible numbers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers flashed in Jessie's brain so fast, she didn't even need to think about what she was multiplying and dividing and adding. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Even though there are rational numbers everywhere on the number line, they take up no space at all. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The numbers used to solve the square ended up being the combination for a lock on a hidden box that contained Shakespeare’s Secret. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

West Indian Archie had the kind of photographic memory that put him among the elite of numbers runners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who worked at PIH knew that a simple “epi” map—based on what makes people sick and what kills them, and in what numbers and at what ages—could be coded in two colors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Without an ability to compose fiction, Neanderthals were unable to cooperate effectively in large numbers, nor could they adapt their social behaviour to rapidly changing challenges. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other studies show different numbers, but the same trend—a big disparity that opened over their lifetimes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Miriam Mann worked for Jim Williams, running the numbers for the “rendezvous” research that would allow two vehicles to dock while in space. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When he had worked so long that the numbers danced in front of his eyes, he switched to other parts of the book. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at a table of numbers whose columns are labeled DA DN SA SN, and have to flip back and scan for the explanation: Dissimilar Affirmative, Dissimilar Negative, Similar Affirmative, Similar Negative. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’d stop and scribble some numbers down on a small spiral notepad and then measure again, and say something like “Better safe than sorry.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand yet that it was a gambling site belonging to a criminal ring, but I did know what a minus sign in front of red numbers meant. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were columns of numbers, lists headed “Salmon” and “Trout.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There were records and info sheets full of scratched-out numbers and random words that didn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With Leibniz’s calculus, these dys and dxs can be manipulated just like ordinary numbers, which is why modern mathematicians and physicists usually use Leibniz’s notation rather than Newton’s. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"But of course multiplying by two is a lot easier than some of the bigger numbers. What about the other multiplication tables? Do you know any of those?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no, Lupe. They aren’t that kind of tables. These tables are just lists of numbers. I could figure them out, all right...” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

All through dinner I twist in my seat, checking the clock to make sure I do not miss the hour of magic numbers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“The first assignment is on page twelve, numbers one through twenty-one.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

First you write down all the positive whole numbers in the world. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Right over there in the nonfiction section. Try the 580 call numbers,” she says. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Every day, I would gamble all of my tips—as high as fifteen and twenty dollars—on die numbers, and dream of what I would do when I hit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vast numbers of them are trapped far above the clouds and are condemned to bounce from pole to pole until by chance they encounter some high-altitude atmospheric molecule and are removed from the radiation belt. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Had I paid attention to numbers, General ...” Lee left the rest unsaid. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these extravagant numbers were surely a form of self-aggrandizement, and reckless to the point of irresponsibility. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I put the picture down right in front of her, on top of some papers with numbers and equations on it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

At eight or nine digits, the local telephone number would exceed the human channel capacity: there would be many more wrong numbers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The information lady looks at the numbers and words written like ant trails on the back of my card. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The ‘Society for Humanity’ is a Northern organization, primarily, you know, and they make no secret of not wanting the Machines.—Susan, they are few in numbers, but it is an association of powerful men. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Cultures girded themselves against zero, and philosophies crumbled under its influence, for zero is different from the other numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z