How to Use number line in a Sentence

number line

noun
  • That doesn’t stop us from using the concept of a number line.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Take the stretch of the number line between zero and 1.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In this way, primitive sets might comprise a hefty chunk of the number line.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2022
  • But such data can, at best, offer hints about how the rest of the number line might behave.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Consider the real numbers, which are all the points on the number line.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The number line was more crowded, and weirder, than anyone had imagined.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • Take the real numbers—all the infinitely many tick marks on the number line.
    — Kevin Hartnett, Wired, 20 June 2021
  • Take the real numbers — all the infinitely many tick marks on the number line.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 June 2021
  • The authors believe the connection lies in lines--the timeline and the number line.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
  • But that’s like saying, there’s an infinite number of numbers in the number line.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Being able to say something more about how they’re distributed along the number line has posed an even greater challenge.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Six-seven is just a lasso looped by fate around two adjacent integers on the number line.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Notice that every part of the number line appears to be covered by some interval.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • As the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2022
  • Working with your mental timeline or number line, that is, may really be a spatial skill.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
  • No longer a placeholder, the digit acquired a value and found its place on the number line, before 1.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
  • If correct, then the placement of prime numbers along the number line never deviates too much from the prime number set.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 July 2024
  • An extra vote, which seems so powerful, really only matters if the numbers line up.
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Real numbers are all the continuous numbers from the number line.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • In the middle of the number line, around 1 and -1, there are more posit representations than floating point.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2022
  • In the middle of the number line, around 1 and –1, there are more posit representations than floating point.
    — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2022
  • This left open the question of how these infinitely many Carmichael numbers are distributed along the number line.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
  • This left open the question of how these infinitely many Carmichael numbers are distributed along the number line.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The actual number lining the streets of Ahmedabad on Monday was well under one-tenth that amount.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • That number lines up with measurements taken of bricks and other inorganic objects measured at the time.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
  • Two parallel lines can in theory go on forever; another number can always be added to the end of the number line.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Now studies show that the concept of zero is processed in similar ways to many numbers and can be situated along a mental number line.
    — Michaela Maya-Mrschtik, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
  • For any particular denominator, only part of the number line will be colored in.
    — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The spacing of the number line is the most basic example of a phenomenon found throughout the field of number theory.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 May 2020
  • Is there a set of points on that line, on the number line, which is larger than the natural numbers, larger than the rationals, but smaller than the whole line itself?
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023

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