The phrase "a basic number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a fundamental or simple numerical value in various contexts, such as mathematics or statistics.
Example: "In this experiment, we will start with a basic number to establish a control group."
Alternatives: "a fundamental number" or "a simple number".
During their first two to three years of study, JSP students take a basic number of seminars and classes, and complete most of the program's pre-dissertation requirements.
Human babies and even animals have a basic number sense that many believe evolves from seeing the world and trying to quantify all the sights.
This app provides users with a basic number pad and electronic programing guide, but also likely foreshadows a larger home theater announcement later this week.
If someone were to have popped this thing on a server and scripted up a basic number incrementer to blindly dig up albums, the attacker likely could have deleted a lot of photos before Facebook was any the wiser.
From the very limited chromosome data available, the most reliable basic chromosome number of Synotis appears to be x = 10, a basic number also characteristic of the genus Senecio L. as re-defined by Pelser et al. (2007).
All of this can be stopped with just a basic number assigned to a child's name saying how old they are.
It was a loud, basic number that recalled both Nirvana and McCartney's Fireman project, and it was neither too ambitious nor embarrassing.
According to several discrete emotion theories, there is a certain basic number of emotion categories from which all the emotion states are derived such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust [27 32].
This textbook effectively builds a bridge from basic number theory to recent advances in applied number theory.
Every disease has a basic reproduction number but the numbers are scattered across the literature.
