The phrase "salient number" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually refers to a figure or figure of speech that has a particular significance or stands out in some way. For example, "It's been 10 years since he passed away - a salient number that still brings tears to his wife's eyes."
As Israel and Hamas take a breather from fighting a month after Israel's launch of Operation Protective Edge, it seems like a good moment to take note again of some salient numbers:1.
"If you told someone they could have $4,000 a month for life, or $3,000 a month now and it's going to go up, people just look at the salient numbers and say $4,000," he said.
Here are the salient numbers, simplified in a user-friendly format, that get to the heart of the matter.
Second, the gene (or SNP) list for ORA is usually based on a stringent significant threshold, which can be a salient issue when the number of genes or SNPs analyzed is very large.
"The salient issue is transparency.
Moynihan also noted a salient fact: the number of new welfare cases, which had previously tracked the unemployment rate for blacks, had begun to rise even as unemployment fell.
We chose to control for overall surface area and circumference, because these were found to be more salient features than number for children of this age (surface: [ 18, 38, 57]; circumference: [ 36]).
But when Obama declared his candidacy, in February of 2007, unemployment — the most politically salient of economic numbers — was below five per cent.
The threshold has a great influence on the number of salient objects during using saliency method to generate the salient maps.
"A number of salient issues, including the posthumous collection and use of gametes, are being considered as part of this review," she said.
