(1) One or more characters or symbols associated with arithmetic, such as
1+2=3 or
8*6.
(2) In programming, an arithmetic expression that results in 10% of a value might look like
result=.10*total. Numeric values are defined as integers (whole numbers) or floating point numbers (with a decimal point). The other two kinds of programming expressions are "character" (quoted text) or Boolean yes/no (0 or 1). See
integer and
floating point.