Sentence examples for numerals from inspiring English sources

The cross is perhaps best known for its Christian symbolism, but it's also a mathematical sign, a Chinese character to indicate the number 10 - and the same in Roman numerals, except that cross is a diagonal X.

The poems in the book are untitled, and given Roman numerals, a device that adds to the biblical flavour.

8 Super Bowl 50 (not using Roman numerals).

It now resides at Yale University.The manuscript is written in "Voynichese", which consists of strange characters, some of which look like normal Latin letters and Roman numerals.

Such repetitions are more likely to be misread by DNA-sequencing machines, leading to errors when reading the information back.The team's solution was to translate the binary computer information into ternary (a system that uses three numerals: 0, 1 and 2) and then encode that information into the DNA.

Such elisions have the added advantage, where telephone messages are concerned, of being incomprehensible to anybody over about 25.For English-speaking users, the neatest contractions combine letters and numerals.

It is after all home to the lakh, for 100,000 and the crore, for 10m, along with the first nine numerals (despite their being mislabeled as "Arabic" by the West).

If that does not reduce the arrogance that leads to Enron-sized scandals, then I am not sure the trend towards ethics classes you reported will help.Edward NevraumontTorontoA study that countsSIR – Your review of a book on the history of algebra challenged your readers to "try doing multiplication with Roman numerals" ("An equation for eternity", May 12th).

Alex (his name supposedly an acronym for Avian Learning Experiment) eventually learned the names of about 50 objects, knew the numerals from one to six, could perform simple addition and used categories such as similarity and difference, shape, colour and material.

SIR —You write: "[T]ry doing multiplication with Roman numerals".

In theory it could represent only 32 distinct symbols, but Baudot's scheme allowed each code to stand for two characters, using two of the symbols to switch to and from an alternative character set that included numerals and punctuation marks.