Third-person singular simple present indicative form of Bates number

(law) A number affixed to a document indicating its number in a series of documents, usually with respect to evidentiary documents being provided to the other party in a legal proceeding. Initially should be referenced as (Bates stamp p.1); subsequent references within the same document should follow as (p.2), (p.3), etc or (Bates stamp p.4).

To stamp or label documents with Bates numbers.

simple past tense and past participle of Bates number

plural of Bates numbering

A sequence of Bates numbers in a particular set of documents. / The action of creating or assigning such a sequence for identification.

present participle of Bates number

(mathematics) Any of a sequence of numbers related to the Fibonacci numbers. L(0) = 1, L(1) = 1, and then, for all n larger than 1, L(n) = L(n-1)+L(n-2)+1.

plural of Catalan number

In combinatorial mathematics, any of a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems, often involving recursively defined objects; the nᵗʰ Catalan number is equal to (2n choose n) over (n+1).