Numbers
The magnitude of any number x is usually called its "absolute value" or "modulus", denoted by |x|.
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Famous quotes containing the word numbers:
“The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”
—Bible: Hebrew Numbers 35:33.
“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
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