[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

numbers \num"bers\, prop. n.
   pl. of number. the fourth book of the pentateuch,
   containing the census of the hebrews.
   1913 webster
see also:
number 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

numbers
     n 1: the fourth book of the old testament; contains a record of
          the number of israelites who followed moses out of egypt
          syn: book of numbers
     2: an illegal daily lottery syn: numbers pool, numbers game,
         numbers racket
see also:
book of numbers numbers pool numbers game numbers racket 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

173 moby thesaurus words for "numbers":
   alexandrine, stabreim, a mass of, a world of, accent, accentuation,
   algorism, algorithm, alliterative meter, amount, amphibrach,
   amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, anapest, antispast,
   applied mathematics, army, arsis, bacchius, beat, bevy, bingo,
   bulk, bunch, cadence, caesura, card games, catalexis, chloriamb,
   chloriambus, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, cloud,
   clutter, colon, counterpoint, covey, crack-loo, crap game,
   crap shooting, craps, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter,
   diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
   elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, extent, fan-tan,
   feminine caesura, figures, flight, flock, flocks, foot, force,
   hail, hazard, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter,
   hexapody, higher mathematics, hive, horse racing, host, iamb,
   iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jam, jingle, keno,
   large amount, legion, lilt, lots, lotto, magnitude, many,
   masculine caesura, mass, masses of, math, mathematic, mathematics,
   matter, measure, measurement, meter, metrical accent,
   metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit,
   metrics, metron, mob, molossus, mora, movement, muchness,
   multitude, nest, pack, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period,
   pinball, pitch and toss, plurality, policy, proceleusmatic,
   prosodic pattern, prosody, pure mathematics, pyrrhic,
   quantitative meter, quantities, quantity, quantum, quite a few,
   rhythm, rouge et noir, roulette, rout, ruck, scanning, scansion,
   scores, shell game, shoal, spondee, sprung rhythm, strength,
   stress, substance, sum, swarm, sweepstake, sweepstakes, swing,
   syllabic meter, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme,
   the numbers, the numbers game, thesis, throng, tidy sum,
   trente-et-quarante, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
   vers libre, versification, whole, worlds of

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

numbers n. scientific computation output of a computation that may
   not be significant results but at least indicate that the program is
   running. may be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc. `making
   numbers' means running a program because output -- any output, not
   necessarily meaningful output -- is needed as a demonstration of
   progress. see pretty pictures, math-out, social science number.


see also:
pretty pictures math-out social science number 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

numbers
     
        scientific computation output from a computation that may
        not be significant but at least indicates that the program is
        running.  numbers may be used to placate management, grant
        sponsors, etc.  "making numbers" means running a program
        because output - any output, not necessarily meaningful output
        - is needed as a demonstration of progress.
     
        see pretty pictures, math-out, social science number.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-01-13
     
     
see also:
pretty pictures math-out social science number jargon file 

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