counting number

  • 21number — numberable, adj. numberer, n. /num beuhr/, n. 1. a numeral or group of numerals. 2. the sum, total, count, or aggregate of a collection of units, or the like: A number of people were hurt in the accident. The number of homeless children in the… …

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  • 22Counting-out game — A counting out game is a simple game intended to select a person to be it , often for the purpose of playing another game. These games usually require no materials, and are played with spoken words or hand gestures. Many such games involve one… …

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  • 23Counting points on elliptic curves — An important aspect in the study of elliptic curves is devising effective ways of counting points on the curve. There have been several approaches to do so, and the algorithms devised have proved to be useful tools in the study of various fields… …

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  • 24number symbolism — Introduction       cultural associations, including religious, philosophic, and aesthetic, with various numbers.       Humanity has had a love hate relationship with numbers from the earliest times. Bones dating from perhaps 30,000 years ago show …

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  • 25Counting process — A counting process is a stochastic process {N(t), t ≥ 0} that possesses the following properties: N(t) ≥ 0. N(t) is an integer. If s ≤ t then N(s) ≤ N(t). If s < t, then N(t) − N(s) is the number of events occurred during the… …

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  • 26Counting game — The counting game is a cooperative game usually played with a large number of participants ndash; possibly as few as three or as many as twenty, but working best with about ten. Rules As a group, the players must count from 1 to 20, subject to… …

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  • 27Counting of the Omer — Repentance in Judaism Teshuva Return Repentance, atonement and higher ascent in Judaism   …

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  • 28Counting agent — A counting agent is appointed by either the candidate standing for election or the candidate s election agent to oversee the counting at the election count. Counting agents are only seen as part of elections in the United Kingdom and the British… …

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  • 29Counting quantification — A counting quantifier is a mathematical term for a quantifier of the form there exists at least k elements that satisfy property X . In first order logic with equality, counting quantifiers can be defined in terms of ordinary quantifiers, so in… …

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  • 30counting — [[t]ka͟ʊntɪŋ[/t]] 1) PREP Not counting a particular thing means not including that thing. Counting a particular thing means including that thing. ...an average operating profit of 15% to 16% of sales, not counting administrative expenses. Syn:… …

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