Sentence examples for how certain numbers from inspiring English sources

In his excellent new book Alex Through the Looking Glass, maths wiz and fellow Guardian blogger Alex Bellos reveals how certain numbers trigger specific psychological reactions in the typical human mind (eg some numbers are more "pleasant" than others).

Secondly, the Methods section does not give enough detail about the analyses that were performed to explain how certain numbers were arrived at.

It arises if one has to decide how a certain number of circular items should be packed into a rectangular box when no assumption is made on the shape of the box.

"The mistake they make is not thinking about how they can use certain numbers as tools to better manage where their business is headed tomorrow".

Coulter, arguing for an end to immigration, talked about how certain "cultures" from which large numbers of people immigrate to the U.S. "are obviously deficient," making cryptic reference to "uncles raping their nieces".

CEOs are said to be grilling top managers and demanding to know how certain they are that their numbers are accurate.

"Then we were like, 'Yaaaay!' " The four friends take comfort in numbers, even as they watch certain numbers go down — how many weeks left of severance pay; how much in the savings accounts.

Keeping a conscious eye on what the point of a test or iteration is, not just to itself, but to your overall plan and mission (how building a certain number of tutors in a given area influences student activity and community creation, in my case, rather than just the number of tutors) removes the halfsies quality of a test.

How certain are you about the number of visits that you usually make to V-Mall in any month of the 12 months?

How certain are you about the number of stores that you usually visit on any day of the 7 days in a week?

How certain are you about the number of different items that you usually buy from each of the 72 stores in every visit you make to V-Mall?   8.