Chinese culture is filled with superstitions about numbers, with 888 considered to be a powerful number of wealth.
Mathematicians call these "perfect squares" and they arise in many fundamental questions about numbers and their properties.
It is difficult to measure Ecompanies' financial success, if any, given how tight-lipped the incubator is about numbers.
"It's very telling that no one is talking about numbers, " says Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with research firm Interpret.
Next time anything about numbers or economics gurgles forth from his smiling mug, I would think twice about listening.
Although Ms Miller's book is chiefly concerned with writing about numbers, the last chapter gives advice about speaking with numbers.
"Once you start to write about numbers, it's sedative time, " says Syracuse University television and film professor Richard Dubin .
Mr. FEITH: Well, that will be a judgment that our commanders will make, and I can't speculate about numbers at this point.
Policymakers were even more mistaken about culture than they were about numbers.
In fact, far from rhetoric, budgets and tax are all about numbers.
Getting the arts graduates to do the writing about numbers and complicated things like that might not be all that wise an idea.
The range of subjects is impressive, from greenhouse gas emissions, wealth and disease to more obscure data about numbers of dentists and working tractors.
Ultimately, this debate is not just about numbers on a page.
Old military thinking about numbers has been overtaken thoroughly by events.
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Almost everywhere parties, governors and state legislatures are bickering about numbers.
The National Research Council issued a report in 2009 saying parents, teachers and caregivers need more information about helping preschoolers learn about numbers, spatial thinking and measurement.
Like the previous album, which features songs about the letters in the alphabet, 123's is a collection of songs about numbers starting at zero and going up to infinity.
Assuming that the increased sales of Windows Phone 8 devices that Steve Ballmer is promoting holds up during 2013, Microsoft and the hardware manufacturers need to be shouting about numbers as much as possible.
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If we are all as concerned as we claim to be about the staggering amount of debt our country has run up, we all need to get real about numbers and words, acknowledge that we have choices, and quit playing politics with our future prosperity.
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However, most of the numbers cited about the numbers of jobs at risk come from industry groups with a vested interest in making the cuts look as bad as possible.
In the end, the quantified self may be less about the numbers and more about the personal insight.
We are not talking about vast numbers of children - we are talking about the most vulnerable children.
Now, universally acknowledged as an all-time great and freed from the losing environment that he faced for years with the Seattle Mariners Ichiro has begun to focus less on disproving doubters, or caring about what numbers like 3, 000 hits say about his place in baseball history.
Their numbers are in decline because of loss of habitat, but if the survey reveals more about their numbers and habits, action can be taken to help.
Veteran Microsoft analyst Paul Thurrott chimed in recently, sounding awfully confident about some numbers.
There is nothing apocalyptic about such numbers, nor is the rate of household growth unusually fast.
Again, not taking into account that we're talking about median numbers across a broad swath of, you know, community.
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