Sentence examples for odd numerals from inspiring English sources

The watch is "steampunk" because it has little pistons, gears, and odd numerals on an otherwise bog-standard timepiece.

The Grande Seconde SW is a standard three hand watch with a few odd touches – "The numerals are printed on the inclined ring itself, a technical exploit to which only the Jaquet Droz craftsmen hold the secret" and presumably those selfsame craftsmen will take that secret to their graves – while the Reserve De Marche Ceramique is limited to 88 pieces and is made of ceramic.

The odd symbols and scattered numerals look like a strange language, and yet to read them, neurologists tell us, we would have to use parts of our brains that have nothing to do with what we normally think of as reading and writing.

Most QSL's were beautiful -- not because of their artistic design but because the odd juxtaposition of letters and numerals, along with graphics and cartoons of antennas, radio waves, lightning bolts and technical doodads, gave them the allure of a secret society.

— in which Mr. Idlet and Mr. Grimwood counted to 18 forward, backward, by even and odd numbers, and then in Roman numerals.

The participants were instructed to push a button with their right thumb when the numeral "3" was displayed only if they recalled that the numeral 2-back was even, and to do nothing when the numeral 2-back was odd.

A numeral or a number word is flashed to the subject on a monitor, and a computer records the time it takes the subject to push one of two buttons to identify the number as odd or even.

He could still count and recite a sequence like 2, 4, 6, 8, but he was incapable of counting downward from 9, differentiating odd and even numbers, or recognizing the numeral 5 when it was flashed in front of him.

See numerals and numeral systems.

For further discussion, see numerals and numeral systems: Numeral systems.

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