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In round numbers

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approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, etc.; as, a bin holding 99 or 101 bushels may be said to hold in round numbers 100 bushels.
- Dryden.

See also: Round


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You are, we will say in round numbers, twenty years of age; Mr.
He thus obtained a spheroid, the capacity of which amounted, in round numbers, to ninety thousand cubic feet.
It follows, then, considering the position which she occupies in opposition when full, that she is nearer to the sun by twice her distance from the earth; and that distance may be estimated at the two-hundredth part of that which separates the sun from the earth, or in round numbers 400,000 miles.
 
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