The phrase "descending number" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to a sequence of numbers that decreases in value, such as 4, 3, 2, 1. For example, "The descending number order of the cards was Ace, King, Queen, Jack".
Small-font text below each category listing gives up to fifty specific pages found to be blocked (ordered by descending number of inbound links).
Of 4,454 hours of language study Arguelles did over a period of 456 days, he spent 456 hours on his native language, English, and also 456 on Arabic, and then a descending number of hours on the remaining 50 languages on his spreadsheet.
In addition to multithreading, node utilization can be improved by pre-ordering ligands to be docked by complexity (descending number of torsional angles).
Linkage group nomenclature was assigned in order of descending number of markers per linkage group.
The order of the species reflects the descending number of first rank matches, i.e., the number of instances where the best match was to a particular species.
Within the three categories, the clusters were sorted by ascending number of present homologs within the Apicomplexa and descending number of present homologs within the non-Apicomplexa.
For three people the fraction has three descending numbers — 365, 364, 363 — in the numerator, and three copies of 365 in the denominator.
The company's top seller is, by far, the Macan SUV, followed in descending numbers by the 911, the Cayenne and the Panamera.
The descending numbers from her political action committee and her utter disappearance from the national Republican debate fully indicate that Palin's political half-life has long since passed.
The Adjacency measures the frequency of pairs of adjacent ascending or descending numbers, reflecting the habitual tendency to count forward or backward.
The Adj measures the relative frequency of pairs of adjacent ascending or descending numbers (i.e., 7-8 or 4-3) as compared to the total number of response pairs produced by the participant.
