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Words in the cardinal category are cardinal numbers, such as the English one, two, three, which name the count of items in a sequence. The multiple category are adverbial numbers, like the English once, twice, thrice, that specify the number of events or instances of
99.3 is "ninety-nine point three"; or "ninety-nine and three tenths" (U.S., occasionally). In English the decimal point was originally printed in the center of the line (0·002), but with the advent of the typewriter it was placed at the bottom of the line, so that a single key could be used as a full stop/period and as a decimal point.
The accusative forms dŭōs m., dŭās f., the genitive dŭom, classical dŭōrum m./n., dŭārum f., and the dative/ablative dŭōbus m./n., dŭābus f., are original Latin formations replicating nominal declension patterns; at times, duo stands in for other case forms, especially when combined with invariant numerals, e. g. duo et vīgintī ...
[3] Twenty-eight is a harmonic divisor number, [4] a happy number, [5] the 7th triangular number, [6] a hexagonal number, [7] a Leyland number of the second kind [8] (), and a centered nonagonal number. [9] It appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by the terms 12, 16, 21 (it is the sum of the first two of these). [10]
There are exactly twenty-seven straight lines on a smooth cubic surface, [2] which give a basis of the fundamental representation of Lie algebra. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The unique simple formally real Jordan algebra , the exceptional Jordan algebra of self-adjoint 3 by 3 matrices of quaternions , is 27-dimensional; [ 5 ] its automorphism group is the 52 ...
This piece may be performed with Twenty-Eight (Fifty-Four), Twenty-Nine (Fifty-Five), or both (Eighty-Three). All time brackets contain a single sound. The first violin starts the videoclock. Twenty-Eight: 3 flutes, 1 alto flute, 4 clarinets, 3 oboes, 1 English horn, 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon, 4 trumpets, 4 horns, 2 trombones, 1 bass trombone ...
Examples in English are the words one, two, three, and the compounds three hundred [and] forty-two and nine hundred [and] sixty. Cardinal numerals are classified as definite, and are related to ordinal numbers , such as the English first , second , third , etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
The practice may have been due to a common way to say "twenty-second" in Latin, namely duo et vice(n)sima (literally "two and twentieth") rather than the "regular" vice(n)sima secunda (twenty second). [36] Apparently, at least one ancient stonecutter mistakenly thought that the IIXX of "22nd Legion" stood for 18, and "corrected" it to XVIII. [36]