A sequence of Bates numbers in a particular set of documents. / The action of creating or assigning such a sequence for identification.

(law) A number affixed to a document indicating its number in a series of documents, usually with respect to evidentiary documents being provided to the other party in a legal proceeding. Initially should be referenced as (Bates stamp p.1); subsequent references within the same document should follow as (p.2), (p.3), etc or (Bates stamp p.4).

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of Bates number

(law) a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter or propagate. Any information that can be represented in binary format is, ipso facto, representable as a number, and therefore if the information itself is illegal in some way, the pure number itself may be called illegal.

plural of serial number

(mathematics) Any of a set of numbers which extends the set of real numbers by including infinitesimals and infinities, and is used in nonstandard analysis.

For a given set of coprime positive integers, the greatest integer that cannot be expressed as a linear combination (with nonnegative integer coefficients) of its elements.

plural of Frobenius number

(mathematics, number theory) A number equal to the number of dots in a geometric figure formed of dots. The series begins with unity and is formed so that subtracting each from the following, and treating the series so formed in the same way, by a continuation of the process, yields equal differences.

plural of number cruncher