NUM 
peace, an a ar nd open in time 
oe an laws for the reformation of 
manners ; and promoted agriculture, by affigning alan 
of the rere ty lands to thofe who had no other occupa- 
He endeavoured to = iiag anata a 
» betwe e Rom 
of war. He 
cals 
had declined ‘doing 3 and, peer {eemed on renounce the 
idea of future agprandifement by the operation of warfare 
y 
paste 
mead Numa Marcia, an 
Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome. 
Neus. Univer. Hift. Plutarch. 
NUMAGA, in Geography, aa! . Germany, which 
runs into the Rhine, 6 oe mis Bnifi 
NUMA A, in Ancient Geogra oe a town in the in- 
terior part of Hither Spain, at one of the fources of the 
See 
mother of 
NUM 
Durius. 
tiberia. 
war which it fyftained againft this republic, a 
the cou reise with which it defended itfelf at ite cle 
of a fiege of twenty years. It was deftroyed at length 
gr rae in the year of Rome 620. 
NUMB-F%, a cramp-fifh, in Ichthyology. See Tor- 
lag ' 
NUMBER is properly a —— or an aflemblage of 
nana or of satin things of the fam : 
r, give a 
S 
r in whic 
ey are inclu ded, or the pro- 
The principal of which idivihon 
ey are aaa 
or the forms under whic 
perties which they poffefs. 
may be enumerated as fo — 
An or unity, e repre efentation of any thing con- 
aia individually, without regard to the parts of which 
it is compofed. 
An integer, or integral number, is an unit, or an aflemblage 
of units. 
ven — is that which can be divided into two 
equal eel 
dd n os is that which cannot be divided into two 
8 equal integral parts; being greater or lefs than fome even 
a a y unity. 
mpofite number is any number that is produced by the 
mltigl tion of two or more patie a€tors ; or it is a 
number that may be divided into two or more equal integral 
parts, — greater Aare unity. 
number is that which cannot be clans A the 
falepieaasn of a integral faGtors; or it is that which 
cannot be divided into any number of equal egal parts 
greater than unity. See Prime Nin 
Commenfurable numbers are fuch as have each the fame 
common divifor ; or that may be each exaétly divided into 
the fame number of equal integral parts. 
Incommenfurable numbers, or numbers prime to each other, are 
fuch as have not a common divifor 
Square numbers are ee which arife from the product 
of two eal integral factor 
ube numbers are a which arife from the produ of 
three equal integral fa 
4 power is that ohh ae fram the multiplication of 
any number of equal factors, and it is called the 2d, 3d, qth, 
&c, aaa according as it confifis of two, three, four, &c. 
factors en hitia 
perfe umber is that which : equal to ae fum . 
all its ducifors, or ree parts; thus 6 = 
6 
or 6 = + 3 + 6 3 
phrally which fee. 
~ Abundant creamed is that which exceeds the fum of all its 
divifors, or aliqu 
therefore 6 is a — 
arts. 
Deficient pen ae is that which is lefs than the fum of all its 
= or aliquot parts. 
Je numbers are thofe pairs of integers, each of 
aah | is equal to all the aliquot parts of the other: thus 
284 and 220 are a pair of amicable numbers, for 
284 
