It's "numerate".
"I’m numerate and nerdy enough to enjoy geeking it out with abstruse financial concept", says Felix Salmon, a financial reporter, of himself.
His first assignment, according to an interview he gave to the New York Times was for the Times. He was not required to write of complex financial concepts with clarity, but to write about an “assiduously cool” bar in the East Village "where the black-clad patrons sipped expensive cocktails and ate tapas while staring at models and other beautiful people."
Salmon is both "numerate" and "literate" if "assiduously cool" is a mark of extreme literacy.
If “numerate” means somebody good with numbers, then "literate" ought to be somebody who is good with words, no?
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