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A number describes quantity and assesses multitude.

Contents

• Mathematics and language
• Literature
• Entertainment
• Music
• People with the name
• Other uses
• See also

Number, numbers, or The Number may also refer to:

Mathematics and language

• Grammatical number, a morphological grammatical category indicating the quantity of referents
• Number Forms, a Unicode block containing common fractions and Roman numerals
• Nominal number, a label to identify an item uniquely
• Number theory, a mathematical discipline
• Numbering scheme, a method of assigning numbers to items
• Numeral system, a writing system for expressing numbers
• Numeral (linguistics), words or phrases that describe a numerical quantity
• Number sign, a #

Literature

• Book of Numbers, part of the Torah; the fourth book of the Bible
• Number (magazine), a Japanese sports magazine
• Numbers (magazine), a literary magazine published in Cambridge, England
• Numbers: The Universal Language , a 1996 illustrated book by Denis Guedj
• The Number, a book by Jonny Steinberg

Entertainment

• "Numbers" (Lost), an episode of Lost
  • The Numbers (Lost), the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 in Lost
• Numbers (Nanoha), a group of characters in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
• Numbers (TV series) (stylised as Numb3rs), an American TV series
• The Numbers, a website that tracks box office revenue and film sales, published by Nash Information Services LLC.
• Numbers monsters, a set of cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
• Numbers, a play by Kieron Barry
• Numbers, a character in the Dick Tracy franchise
• A Number , a 2002 play by the English playwright Caryl Churchill
• Numbers, a historic nightclub in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas
• The Number (film), a 2017 South African film
• Numbers (South Korean TV series), a 2023 television series

People with the name

• Ronald Numbers (1942–2023), an American professor and historian of science

Other uses

• Numbers (spreadsheet), a spreadsheet application developed by Apple as part of its iWork suite
• Number (periodicals), a number to indicate a particular issue of a periodical
• Number (sports), a number assigned to an athlete
• Telephone number or number
• Numbers game, a gambling scheme common in poor U.S. urban neighborhoods
• Numbers station, a spy radio station
• The Numbers Gang, a prison gang in South Africa
• Preferred number or preferred value in industrial design
• Describing something having greater numbness
• Individual Number (個人番号, kojin bangō), or My Number in Japan, is a 12-digit ID number that has been issued to all citizens and residents of Japan since late 2015.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Number
• All pages with titles containing Number
• Category:Numbers

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