"When I say $200 billion a year, this is not some abstract number.

And he can reckon abstract numbers in his head, or things about him which are numerable?

Each of these is a distinct numeral for representing the same abstract number.

The light softens and even glows in the presence of abstract numbers.

In mathematics the term "number" is usually taken to mean an abstract number.

That piece of data is usually an abstract number or, in some cases, a set of dice.

Reduce it to equations and pretend that the abstract numbers are the reality, when in fact they're just marks on paper.

What do these abstract numbers stand for?

Real lives are soon cold-bloodedly crunched along with the fast-flying abstract numbers.

Players sometimes feel like they're playing for abstract numbers on the screen and fail to associate their online losses with real monetary loss.

"It is one thing to see an abstract number of 12 million illegal immigrants," Mr. King said.

Let us remember that we are talking here not just about abstract numbers on grids and charts, but about actual women living real lives.

She wasn't thinking of an abstract number.

In any event, this scheme would only change abstract numbers without actually holding down CO2 output.

When faced with abstract numbers and letters with no "real world" significance, respondents of the Wason card test generally do very poorly.

The story of "Pepper Pot" had gone from the quotidian rites of grade school to the abstract numbers of the art marketplace.

Replies: Mohan, Every new compound is given an "abstract number" which is related to the article that first published its discovery.

A concrete number is a number associated with the things being counted, in contrast to an abstract number which is a number as a single entity.

For example "five apples" and "half of a pie" are concrete numbers while "five" and "one half" are abstract numbers.

Mrs Oomen-Ruijten brought forward issues that relate not to abstract numbers or abstract individuals, but to real people who encounter this kind of discrimination every day.

The idea of an abstract number did not yet exist, thus all quantities were written as metrological symbols and never as numerals followed by a unit symbol.

For nearly 40 years, Mr. Myrdal argued his thesis that economists reflect their own social biases and tended to err by reducing economics to abstract numbers.

And the ten fingers held aloft twice is an advance in mathematics so profound-an abstract number without a name-that all subsequent analytical thought will be based upon it.

Ms. Kulkarni, a veteran Indian dancer and choreographer who has performed many times in New York, was at her best in her most abstract numbers.

People are stumbling through the streets near the river, speaking of abstract numbers and shining blue lights, spouting out stream-of-consciousness ramblings, and chanting "big big big."