Sentence examples for numerals called from inspiring English sources

The builders cut and fitted the timberwork together on the ground and scratched Roman numerals, called assembly marks, on the joints to indicate where pieces of timber were to be combined.

Those who understand roman numerals call it Studio 21.

The number, called alpha, would be the same for alien races using measuring sticks based on the width of the fourth planet circling Betelgeuse or clocks with faces bearing 79 numerals.

The first ciphered system seems to have been the Egyptian hieratic (literally "priestly") numerals, so called because the priests were presumably the ones who had the time and learning required to develop this shorthand outgrowth of the earlier hieroglyphic numerals.

When he was running for President, George W. Bush mistook the third syllable of the late Kim's name for a roman numeral and called him Kim Jong Two.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet When he was running for President, George W. Bush mistook the third syllable of the late Kim's name for a roman numeral and called him Kim Jong Two.

The same Indian merchant also brought a manuscript that introduced for the first time outside India the nine Hindu numerals we use to this day and are now called Arabic numerals.

There are 40 in a set; 26 for the letters in the alphabet, 10 for numerals, three which are called "substitutes" and are really just ditto marks, and one "answering pennant".

In a series of precisely executed watercolor drawings, candy-colored product logos are combined with bits of architecture and thread-fine lines of written numerals into what might be called corporate still lifes.

Most modern societies use the base-10 system (also called decimal) of Hindu-Arabic numerals.

By 2008 he was painting white numerals on a white background whose color he called "blanc merité," or "well-earned white".