Unfortunately in the real world of Washington politics, decisions are sometimes not made in the abstract, non-emotional world of numbers and calculations.
The Memory of the World Register, now numbers a total of 245 documents and documentary collections from all parts of the world.
Compared to the world of PCs the numbers are huge.
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While many people get through life quite handsomely without ever giving much thought to financial identification numbering projects, a significant number of people around the world are immersed in numbers, codes and fields of standardized messages which make money flow electronically without, for the most part, manual intervention.
That catastrophe, coming on the heels of World War I, destroyed the faith countless numbers of people had in democratic politics and traditional free markets.
Meanwhile, a clutch of "boutique hotels" and world-class restaurants are welcoming record numbers of bon vivant tourists to a city still unsure exactly how to handle them.
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But what country in the world is producing those kind of numbers?
Five of the world's seven turtle species, many of whose numbers are in decline, can be seen off the UK coast.
So if, for instance, its numbers show China's share of world Internet users is half what the CIA's numbers show, Net Applications would count each Chinese browser in its data twice.
To paint a picture of what exactly these numbers mean, this spring MMO giant World of Warcraft had 11.4 million registered users.
Twitter is a good example of how the world of data, once dominated by numbers, has become saturated, even overwhelmed, with text.
"How proud you must all be that this new assembly is the first legislative body in Europe, perhaps in the world, to have equal numbers of women and men among its members, " she said.
Extrapolate those kinds of numbers to the world, where more than a million people are killed in accidents each year, you easily get an economic incentive to reduce accidents that is measured in the trillions.
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The association between finance and international strategy is particularly notable in the contemporary business world, in which the numbers of countries that host companies operating internationally, and the heterogeneity among them, have increased a great deal.
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Rather, we count the numbers of TEUs moving through the port facilities around the world as the true signal of economic strength or weakness, and those numbers are rising, not falling.
Profits doubled in the last quarter of 2011, one of the biggest numbers for any corporation in the history of the world.
"There are numbers of children of world leaders who get turned down, " she said.
Emoticons, which represent moods and facial expressions using a combination of punctuation marks, numbers and letters, are the darling of the texting world.
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Huge numbers of patients around the world take fish oil pills in hopes of preventing common heart rhythm problems.
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Conservationists in Africa and Asia have recorded slight increases in the numbers of one of the world's most endangered large mammals - the rhinoceros.
Japanese Americans were herded like cattle into internment camps during World War II (as were smaller numbers of German, Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian Americans).
The paper was just three pages long, and it introduced what would arguably become the most famous string of letters and numbers in the world.
If one of these turned out to be just 2 percent better than the other at preventing heart attacks and deaths, this knowledge would save vast numbers of lives around the world, because heart attacks are so common, and because statins are so widely used.
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Thousands of amateur and professional eclipse watchers are in the region, but perhaps in smaller numbers than other parts of the world might have attracted.
In a recent article, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, of the World Bank, illustrates the much bigger numbers the modellers could produce given a free hand.
Until now, China Mobile has reigned comfortably as the world's largest mobile operator, in what is the world's largest mobile market in terms of subscriber numbers.
Some argue that this is all right, since it is only about 70% of GDP, but it is also a whopping 326% of exports, one of the highest numbers in the emerging world.
As a result, the organisers are able to know that educators, school administrators, business people, parents, policy-makers, researchers and consultants from around the world visit the site, print out large numbers of documents, sending back responses via e-mail and providing new information, including articles and other resources.
In terms of the numbers of very large aircraft (like the A380) that they handle, the world's busiest hubs by then will be Dubai, Beijing Capital and Hong Kong, with Heathrow and JFK in fourth and fifth place.
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