A new study shows that when we mentally tally expert opinions, we treat numeric predictions differently than those predicted by words. One of those expressions moves us towards a more extreme ...

The year 2023. Many people, eager to leave 2022 behind, found significance in 2023 - literally, the numerical expression 2023. The remarkable mathematical phenomena of 2023 captivated people's ...

A hundred-foot road or a hundred-feet road? — Many readers must be familiar with the Indiranagar 100 Feet Road in Bangalore. Many roads in different cities of India have names such as 200-feet road, ...

Weather forecasts available from the U.S. National Weather Service were examined to assess how often and in what manner expressions of numerical precipitation probability were used. Of the forecasts ...

If you define a numeric variable and assign the result of a character expression to it, SAS tries to convert the character result of the expression to a numeric value and to execute the statement. If ...