numerophile

plural numerophiles

1. rareSomeone who loves numbers.

   If you're a numerophile and a pedant, then you may fret over my somewhat contemptuous handling of significant digits below.

   2020 March 23, Phil Plait, “Why do we have leap days?”, in SYFY WIRE, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022

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   But a quick glance at their methodology is all that's needed to convince even the most avid numerophile that the results are worthless.

   1987, Seymour Siwoff, The 1987 Elias Baseball Analyst, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 152

   By the time he [Edward Gibbon] began his great History, he was a confirmed numerophile. Some consideration of his education in numeracy, and of the writings of his first period of residence in Lausanne (1753–58), will therefore contribute to an understanding of why there are so many numbers in his History, and of the different ways in which he uses them.

   2012, F. P. Lock, The Rhetoric of Numbers in Gibbon's History, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 4

   It is therefore profoundly ironic, and unsettling for both numerophiles and subjectivists alike, that public awareness of trends in subjective experience should come to us mainly in numerical form.

   2012, Neil Thin, Social Happiness, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 92

   Antonyms: numerophobe