Its nine golden hands, rather than pointing at numerals, stopped instead to suggest a location where each of Ron Weasley's family members might be found: " 'Home,'schoolol' and 'work' were there, but there was also 'lost,'hospitalal,'prisonon' and, in the position where the number 12 would be on a normal clock, 'mortal peril.' " Mortal peril!
Stress, strain, and active faults at the points with numerals on the map are plotted at the left of the map to show their directions in detail.
Needles 1 through 5 when energised to the right pointed to numerals 1 through 5 respectively, and to the left numerals 6 through 9 and 0 respectively.
For The Southern Hemisphere Holding your watch horizontally, point the numeral twelve on your watch at the sun (as before).
Items 1, 2, 4 and 5 received a numeral score on a 5-point scale and item number 3 received a numeral score on a 3 point scale.
Thus, to say that there was an electric potential of a certain magnitude in a wire was to say that, if one were to attach the terminals of an voltmeter to the ends of the wire, the needle would point to a numeral representing that very magnitude, a claim that would be disconfirmed if it didn't.
To denote the number of derivatives beyond this point, some authors use Roman numerals in superscript, whereas others place the number in parentheses: :f^{\mathrm{iv}}\,\! or f^{(4)}.
"Look," he said, pointing to some scratched numerals on the verso of the title page.
(Hence, the anthropologist will point out, those silly Roman numerals: they are there to slow us down enough to remember that there have been a lot of these things in a row).
