One trader tested Web-based venue The Broker Forum by putting his phone number into the system.
This works by splitting a card number into pieces which are transmitted separately.
For the advisers and the spin-doctors, imported by Mr Blair's ministers in unprecedented number into Whitehall, matters are different.
To put this number into context, 83 firefighters were killed on the job nationwide all of last year, the U.S. Fire Administration reported.
Putting this number into perspective, during a similar selling period (150 days), the acclaimed GALAXY S II, launched in 2011, globally sold 10 million devices.
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Such snippets encode handfuls of the most basic operations that computers perform: loading a number into memory, for instance, and then adding two numbers together.
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We punch a number into the telephone, and hear only silence.
Customers will not have to fire off their real credit-card number into insecure cyberspace and will have a guarantee of their money back in the event of disappointment.
Some outsized inheritances skew the number into the seven digits.
Owners of iMac system who think that they are affected can enter their serial number into a form on the Apple website to check to see if their system is part of the replacement program.
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By consistently providing just enough information to be confusing, HealthTap may hope to provoke a significant number of users into paying to see a participating doctor and, presumably, persuade a significant number of participating doctors into paying HealthTap for that referral.
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They hope to win five or six new seats this time round, taking their total number almost into double figures.
When looking at complaints filed against financial advisors, judging by the public distrust, you would expect a number vaulting into the ionosphere.
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They preach reconciliation and have brought Hutus, in some number, into government.
Texting among teens increased from about 50 texts a day in 2009 to about 60, with the number running into hundreds for some.
One problem has been turning number crunchers into smooth salesfolk.
But Jankovic had just too much power as a huge cross-court backhand set up a fourth chance, and an equally heavy forehand winner put the former world number one into a seemingly decisive 5-3 lead.
But unlike Lady Gaga, Fan Bingbing can weave in and out of an edgy Jean Paul Gaultier dress or a challenging Alexander McQueen number and into a classic and beautiful Valentino dress with the dexterity of a racecar driver.
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Police spokesman Joe Baeza says they introduced a scheme whereby motorists could register their car number plates into a police database and this empowered patrol cars to stop these cars if they were spotted late at night, to verify the owners.
At that point you'll have a larger number of people going into retirement and a smaller number, relatively speaking, available to support the needs of the aging population.
He said the cause of Thursday's closure was "just the number of people coming into the hospital which was more than the number of beds available".
The result: while most App developers are little more than hobbyists, a small number have grown into very serious businesses.
First Great Western operated a reduced service, running about half the normal number of trains into and out of Paddington.
That can be found under the page's "getting started" section, which lists an activation number that pipes into Cricket's customer service line.
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As noted, the company is testing video game rentals , mixing a select number of games into the mix in some kiosks.
What he did not admit to is ignoring warnings about bringing the former editor of the News of the World into Number 10.
Richard Burr and Tom Coburn compiled a number of them into their own bill, which I called the best Medicare reform proposal yet.
You could get the number of supporters into a telephone booth.
What most people overlooked was that despite seeming like a known solution, the geographic, economic, and cultural distance introduced a significant number of unknowns into the equation.
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