"numerophilia" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988, Timothy A. Booth, Developing Policy Research, Avebury, page 93",
          "text": "Some critics detected more chronic signs of 'numerophilia' in the analyses: a predilection for neglecting relevant variables that are not cardinally measurable.",
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          "ref": "2006, Essays in Response to Bill Cosby's Comments about African American Failure, Edwin Mellen Press, page VI",
          "text": "Many young Blacks suffer from numerophobia for cultural and historic reasons. The new world of the future is likely to require higher levels of mathematicality and a new numerophilia - a fascination with numbers.",
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          "ref": "2012 June 29, Jonathan Chang, “The tyranny of π”, in Scienceline, archived from the original on 2022-06-27",
          "text": "You would think, given my numerophilia, that I would have some warm and special place in my heart for π. Nope.",
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          "ref": "2020, Neil Thin, A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing, Edward Elgar Publishing, page 7",
          "text": "In other words, it is wrong to conceive of GDP obsession giving too much priority to 'the economy'. Rather, it is part of a wider problem of pathological numerophilia.",
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        "The love of numbers."
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        "(rare) The love of numbers."
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