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numbery en · ADJ

Etymology

From number + -y.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, rare) Good with numbers; mathematically inclined.
   • But you might put autism aside and ask us what we have to say about someone like the three-year-old who announced at his first Math Circle class: “I'm very numbery”—and was. 2014, Ellen Kaplan, Robert Kaplan, Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free - Page 19:
2. (informal) Resembling or involving numbers; numeric.
   • The context refers to how you use an expression. You've actually already seen some contextual operations with numbers and strings. When you do numbery sorts of things, you get numeric results. When you do stringy sorts of things, you get string results. 2011, Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl, page 56:
   • We started out, in Part I, with examples about acronyms and so on, but since then we’ve been working with numbery old numbers. 1999, Brian Harvey, Matthew Wright, chapter 5, in Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science, page 57:

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