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In written languages, an ordinal indicator is a character, or group of characters, following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number, rather than a cardinal number. Historically these letters were "elevated terminals", that is to say the last few letters of the full word denoting the ordinal form of the number displayed as a superscript .
The ordinal suffix (e.g., th) is not superscripted (23rd and 496th, not 23 rd and 496 th). Centuries and millennia are written using ordinal numbers, without superscripts and without Roman numerals: the second millennium , the 19th century , a 19th-century book (see also Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Numbers as figures or words ).
The change also makes the superscript letters useful for ordinal indicators, more closely matching the ª and º characters. However, it makes them incorrect for normal superscript and subscript, and so chemical and algebraic formulas are better rendered by using markup.
In symbolic form, the number of nucleons is denoted as a superscripted prefix to the chemical symbol (for example 3 He, 12 C, 13 C, 131 I, and 238 U). The letters m or f may follow the number to indicate metastable or fission isomers, as in 58m Co or 240f Pu. Subscripts and superscripts can also be used together to give more specific ...
A relic of this practice is in ordinal numbers: 27 th. My question: Does any style guide positively prefer superscripting to flat writing, 27th? Or do I see it here and there only because MS Word and its imitators have that as an automatic substitution (active in the default setting)? —Tamfang 00:27, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Ordinal indicator – Character(s) following an ordinal number (used when writing ordinal numbers, such as a super-script) Ordinal number – Generalization of "n-th" to infinite cases (the related, but more formal and abstract, usage in mathematics) Ordinal data, in statistics; Ordinal date – Date written as number of days since first day of ...
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To display -d for the ordinal suffix rather than -nd and -rd, use {{ordinal | integer | d}}. This template should not be used in running prose in articles; it is intended for automated script processing of numeric data. Writing something like "in the {{ordinal|16}} century" serves no purpose, and just makes the wikicode harder to understand and ...