This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To investigate forms and functions of imprecise numerical expressions in biomedical slide talks, tokens were extracted from fifty-two talks ...

In the above examples, the numerical adjectives hundred-foot, fifty-day and fifteen-day act as adjectives and describe journey, war and forecast respectively.

Weather forecasts available from the U.S. National Weather Service were examined to assess how often and in what manner expressions of numerical precipitation probability were used. Of the forecasts ...

Substitution means putting numbers in place of letters to calculate the value of an expression. An expression can be a combination of numbers, letters and operators, grouped together.