A numeral is a figure, symbol, or group of figures or symbols denoting a number. It may refer to: *

Numeral system A numeral system (or system of numeration) is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner. The same sequence of symbo ...

used in mathematics *

Numeral (linguistics) In linguistics, a numeral (or number word) in the broadest sense is a word or phrase that describes a numerical quantity. Some theories of grammar use the word "numeral" to refer to cardinal numbers that act as a determiner that specify the qu ...

, a part of speech denoting numbers (e.g. ''one'' and ''first'' in English) *

Numerical digit A numerical digit (often shortened to just digit) is a single symbol used alone (such as "2") or in combinations (such as "25"), to represent numbers in a positional numeral system. The name "digit" comes from the fact that the ten digits (Latin ...

, the glyphs used to represent numerals

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