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Earthquake magnitudes are measured on a logarithmic scale, meaning each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in power of the seismic waves, resulting in approximately 31.6 times more energy released.
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Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Completing the process: The vice president will announce the whole number of electoral votes (538) and what constitutes a simple majority (217) and announce how many electoral votes each candidate got, then do the same for vice president.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Groups generalize essential properties of the whole numbers.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
In the upper-left corner of the screen, just above the score, each team’s chance of winning the game is expressed as a percentage—a whole number, reassuring in its roundness, that is recalculated after every at-bat.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2024
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Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
Completing the process: The vice president will announce the whole number of electoral votes (538) and what constitutes a simple majority (217) and announce how many electoral votes each candidate got, then do the same for vice president.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Groups generalize essential properties of the whole numbers.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
In the upper-left corner of the screen, just above the score, each team’s chance of winning the game is expressed as a percentage—a whole number, reassuring in its roundness, that is recalculated after every at-bat.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whole%20number. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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