What's the smallest number we can get away with?

So infinity is kind of a strange number.

The number of Saami who still fish in traditional ways is rapidly declining.

Table 5 Number of children attending preschool

France now has half the number of farmers it had 20 years ago.

In 2002 there were 157,851 inhabitants, which is 3.4 of the total population in Norway.

If you subtract infinity from some non infinite number, it's going to be negative infinity.

Polish civilian deaths are estimated at between 150,000 and 200,000.

The population of the main town is approximately 10,000.

The number of families using a substitute type of accommodation is as follows

However, the number of refugees and internally displaced persons continued to rise.

A number of options exist for monitoring the activities within a facility.

(b) Increase in the number of information sharing networks established

This makes them suitable where roof space is limiting, for example where the number of occupants of a building is higher than the number of square metres of suitable and available roof space.

Counting these areas and multiplying by the dilution factor allowed him to calculate the number of viruses in the original suspension.

They are also suggested by the fact that more enterprises are investing abroad and more countries are encouraging their firms to do so.

They'd released a bunch of people, but they still had about 700 people hostage.

There were merely four rows of worshipers, and that was during the Ishaa prayers.

The number of leukocytes in the blood is often an indicator of disease.

At least half of the immigrants were of Finnish origin.

The number of Northern Sami speakers is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 25,000.

The number of accused still at large, however, is cause for concern.

India also has fairly extensive investments in a number of countries in Africa.

We cannot win unless the number of people the extremists recruit is lower than the number we kill and deter.

At year end, employment in Ontario had reached almost 6.3 million, representing 39.5 percent of all employment in Canada.

The Equality Commission with 10 members has been formed under the EAKL.

How many more infants have been vaccinated this year compared with last? How many more children can read and write? How secure is a family's title to its land? How many small businesses have survived for more than three years?

In 2002 the number of male students was 590,067 and the number of female students was 499,136 or approximately 46 per cent.

The number of accused with their cases completed or ongoing is now 52.

The number of obstetric wards (maternity hospitals) has remained unchanged (19 in total).

It is often half jokingly pointed out that the number of generals and admirals in some European countries (none mentioned, none forgotten) is glaringly disproportionate to the number of fighting troops.

Today, however, Japanese driving schools suffer from a fall off in students, which cannot be explained solely by declining population.

There were 61,743 hotel arrivals in 2003, an increase over 2002, in which 53,417 hotel arrivals were registered.

The total number of countries affected by a natural disaster in 2004 was 123, higher than the previous 10 year average.

The order of magnitude of a number is, intuitively speaking, the number of powers of 10 contained in the number.

The number of seats rarely exceeds 400, even in very large countries.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

The average number of State reports examined each year by the treaty bodies is relatively low.

But the figure of those who perished in this tragedy is still likely to rise.

In light of the above, experts may wish to explore a number of questions

Of the Christians, there were 294 households and seven bachelors, while there were 73 Jewish households and eight Samaritan households.

Female enrolment in middle school and high school rose considerably between 1994 and 1998 but remained significantly lower than male enrolment.

For example, in the year 1993 the number of male students was 656,582 while the number of female students was 554,986 or 46 per cent.

Nigeria is often referred to as the Giant of Africa , owing to its large population and economy.