The phrase "numerical formula" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It refers to a mathematical equation or expression that involves numbers and symbols and is used to solve a problem or calculate a value. Example: In order to calculate the area of a triangle, we can use the numerical formula A = 1/2bh, where A represents the area, b represents the base, and h represents the height.
In fact, as Gödel showed, a numerical formula could even be made to say something about itself.
More of the game was played with 10 men against nine than any other numerical formula and it made for an intense, overstretched encounter which was strangely compelling.
While I'm in favor of encouraging kids to read as much as possible, I, like Straight, "find the idea that we can apply a numerical formula to reading a bit insulting to literature".
But as a writer and mother of three girls who love novels, I find the idea that we can apply a numerical formula to reading a bit insulting to literature.
It upheld a policy at the law school that took race into account but struck down an undergraduate policy in which minority applicants were given an explicit point advantage in a numerical formula.
The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), which links a website address such as www.economist.com with the numerical formula (eg, 164.109.58.148) that identifies the particular computer being sought on the network, has over 30m entries.
The commission rejected a proposal to eliminate the use of numerical formulas altogether in measuring whether a school was discriminating.
Some experts said yesterday that NASA's simulations of the shuttle were among the best efforts ever to devise numerical formulas, or codes, that mimic the real world.
Additionally, standardized numerical formulae of the dimensionless stress intensity factor have been derived to guide the engineering application.
Because a logician's handling of proposition forms is in many ways analogous to a mathematician's handling of numerical formulas, the systems he constructs are often called calculi.
If the case reaches the Supreme Court and the decision is upheld, the judges' rationale could prove debilitating to many public universities, which process most applications by compressing students' SAT scores and grade point averages into numerical formulas that often account for race.
