or NOTATION, in ARITHMETIC, the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters. See ARITHMETIC. Numerical NUMERICAL, Numerous, or Numeral, something relating to numbers; thus Numerical Algebra is that which makes use of numbers instead of letters of the alphabet. Numerical difference is also that by which one man is distinguished from another. Hence a thing is said to be numerically the same, when it is so in the strictest sense of the word.