"specifying the number of" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to introduce information or details about the amount or quantity of something. Here is an example: The recipe for the cake includes specifying the number of eggs, sugar, flour, and milk needed for the batter.
Ventana's lawyers had put the provision specifying the number of directors on Ventana's board in Ventana's by-laws.
Chimpanzees, however, have been trained to label pictures of various objects (e.g., spoons, shoes, padlocks, and balls) with the numeral specifying the number of objects in the picture.
But that article said only that Mr. Ryan "has made close to 40 climbs," not specifying the number of separate peaks.
Front-page advertisements in newspapers carry the same message and photo daily, identifying the victim as Charbel Aoun, a Lebanese businessman, and specifying the number of days since he disappeared.
Plus, we have to figure out what to do with the federal judge who approved the memo specifying the number of insects you could throw into a box with an arachnophobic suspected terrorist.
As a memory aid, McMurray made charts for himself in a small notebook, specifying the number of beats to a phrase, the number of times it was repeated, and the direction of his movements.
The acceleration and jerk can be designed simply by specifying the number of registers.
It should refer to "translation" without specifying the number of languages or language families.
Third, partition-clustering with k-means requires pre-specifying the number of clusters, k, to create distinct non-overlapping groups [ 47].
Our R software implements hierarchical clustering and does not require pre-specifying the number of clusters.
This sparse Bayesian infinite factor model, first introduced by Bhattacharya and Dunson (2011), obviates the need for pre-specifying the number of factors; the effective number of factors (here denoted by k*) is chosen such that the contribution from adding additional factors is negligible.
