Quotes About Numbering

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place.

Status is about counting, numbering, ranking and ultimately about excluding.

The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

Football is a pretty complex numbering system most of the time: run the three back through the four hole, things like that. We kind of do the same thing - the three man sets for the four, or whatever.

They've heard of sequential numbering in Supply but clearly aren't convinced that it'd work, so Block 374 is wedged in between Blocks 217 and 434.

according to the text, numbering the people was nearly a year-long process, and there is no clear indication that God had suspended the initial

Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived." See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152

Age 65. — I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be fifty-two. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.

the scientific advances made by early Middle Eastern cultures, one of them being our modern numbering system, whose advantages over Roman numerals included 'positional notation' and the invention of the number zero. Of course, Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl—the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen—known as alcohol.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

those registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.

The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.

“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.

As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their clans and families,

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the Kohathites by their clans and families,

Then the Gershonites were numbered by their clans and families,

And the Merarites were numbered by their clans and families,

The men registered by their clans numbered 3,200.