Adobe Systems Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen is counting big numbers: 4.9 trillion Web display ads will be shown this year, he says.
NFL.com's game (with free and paid versions) was the third or fourth most popular on the Internet last year, depending upon who is doing the counting (the numbers are closely guarded).
The bottom line is that human beings have brains capable of counting to high numbers and manipulating them, so we use mathematics as a useful tool to describe the world around us.
The work, by Professor Brian Butterworth, has shown that dyscalculic children are troubled by even the simplest numerical tasks such as selecting the larger of two numbers or counting the number of objects in a display.
The parental emotion is as simple as a learning to count and as strange as discovering that the series of numbers, the counting, never ends.
Unique visitors numbers are reached by counting each individual only once in each month.
To test the theory, researchers gave 132 participants one of three tasks: using tweezers to remove small pieces from slots in the Japanese equivalent of the board game Operation, counting the appearances of a digit in a block of numbers, and a reaction time test.
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Counting settlers is a matter of terminology as well as of numbers.
Is it possible to work out how many kinds of chocolate there are, and their relative numbers, without tipping them all out on the floor and counting the number of each type?
Labour was tantalisingly short of the numbers it needed by Friday morning, with 12 seats still to declare in north Wales, where counting started at 0900 BST.
Another example is counting 10 years of ObamaCare revenue against 7 years of operational costs during its first decade in order to improve the numbers.
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