ordinal

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There are 25 Helena Drives in Brentwood, each a cul-de-sac preceded by a different ordinal number — 7th, 19th, etc.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

The team also noted that drawings showing ordinal representations were more frequently associated with a one-step solution, even if the problem was cardinal.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

“The only way a person could determine an elector’s ordinal position is by personally observing that elector cast his or her ballot.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2024

The assumption is that something of the essence of institutions, public or private, small or large, religious or not, can be distilled by crunching data and assembling lists with ordinal numbers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023

In the same way, the theory of whole numbers can be reduced to sets of principles which demand the existence of certain ideal objects in certain simple ordinal relations.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various