The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Numbers \Num"bers\, prop. n.
   pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch,
   containing the census of the Hebrews.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Numbers
    n 1: the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of
         the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt
         [syn: Numbers, Book of Numbers]
    2: an illegal daily lottery [syn: numbers pool, numbers
       game, numbers racket, numbers]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

173 Moby Thesaurus words for "numbers":
   Alexandrine, Stabreim, a mass of, a world of, accent, accentuation,
   algorism, algorithm, alliterative meter, amount, amphibrach,
   amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, anapest, antispast,
   applied mathematics, army, arsis, bacchius, beat, bevy, bingo,
   bulk, bunch, cadence, caesura, card games, catalexis, chloriamb,
   chloriambus, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, cloud,
   clutter, colon, counterpoint, covey, crack-loo, crap game,
   crap shooting, craps, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter,
   diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
   elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, extent, fan-tan,
   feminine caesura, figures, flight, flock, flocks, foot, force,
   hail, hazard, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter,
   hexapody, higher mathematics, hive, horse racing, host, iamb,
   iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jam, jingle, keno,
   large amount, legion, lilt, lots, lotto, magnitude, many,
   masculine caesura, mass, masses of, math, mathematic, mathematics,
   matter, measure, measurement, meter, metrical accent,
   metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit,
   metrics, metron, mob, molossus, mora, movement, muchness,
   multitude, nest, pack, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period,
   pinball, pitch and toss, plurality, policy, proceleusmatic,
   prosodic pattern, prosody, pure mathematics, pyrrhic,
   quantitative meter, quantities, quantity, quantum, quite a few,
   rhythm, rouge et noir, roulette, rout, ruck, scanning, scansion,
   scores, shell game, shoal, spondee, sprung rhythm, strength,
   stress, substance, sum, swarm, sweepstake, sweepstakes, swing,
   syllabic meter, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme,
   the numbers, the numbers game, thesis, throng, tidy sum,
   trente-et-quarante, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
   vers libre, versification, whole, worlds of



The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

numbers
 n.

    [scientific computation] Output of a computation that may not be
    significant results but at least indicate that the program is running. May
    be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc. Making numbers means
    running a program because output ? any output, not necessarily meaningful
    output ? is needed as a demonstration of progress. See pretty pictures, 
    math-out, social science number.


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

numbers

   (Scientific computation) Output from a computation that may
   not be significant but at least indicates that the program is
   running.  Numbers may be used to placate management, grant
   sponsors, etc.  "Making numbers" means running a program
   because output - any output, not necessarily meaningful output
   - is needed as a demonstration of progress.

   See pretty pictures, math-out, social science number.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-01-13)