There are two kinds of numbers; ordinal and cardinal. Ordinal numbers denote rank or position in a system, while cardinal numbers tally how many units of something there are. You can think of ordinals ...
An ordinal variable is a number that shows the position of an object within a series of objects with the use of a suffix, for example, "1st" or "453rd." When preparing a worksheet in Excel for your ...
LITTLE ROCK — Dear Critic, It was wholly a pleasure, if a bit of a bewilderment, to be chastised for using the ordinal instead of the cardinal number in an editorial when referring to an historic date ...