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Ordinal numbers may be written in English with numerals and letter suffixes: 1st, 2nd or 2d, 3rd or 3d, 4th, 11th, 21st, 101st, 477th, etc., with the suffix acting as an ordinal indicator. Written dates often omit the suffix, although it is nevertheless pronounced. For example: 5 November 1605 (pronounced "the fifth of November ...
In English orthography, this corresponds to the suffixes ‑st, ‑nd, ‑rd, ‑th in written ordinals (represented either on the line 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or as superscript 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th). Also commonly encountered in Romance languages are the superscript or superior (and often underlined) masculine ordinal indicator , º , and ...
Ordinal indicators are sometimes written as superscripts (1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, rather than 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th), although many English-language style guides recommend against this use. [4] Romance languages use a similar convention, such as 1 er or 2 e in French, or 4ª and 4º in Galician and Italian, or 4.ª and 4.º in Portuguese and Spanish.
To define this set, he defined the transfinite ordinal numbers and transformed the infinite indices into ordinals by replacing ∞ with ω, the first transfinite ordinal number. Cantor called the set of finite ordinals the first number class. The second number class is the set of ordinals whose predecessors form a countably infinite set.
Show the meaning parenthetically, ... Only figures are used with unit symbols ... 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and so on (2nd ...
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
The first quarter of the year runs from January through March, the second quarter is from April through June, and so on. But companies operate on business-oriented “fiscal quarters” instead.
Based on the ordinary ordinals is another series of adjectives: prīmārius 'of the first rank', secundārius 'of the second class, of inferior quality', tertiārius 'containing a third part', quārtārius 'a quarter, fourth part', quīntārius 'containing five parts', 'five-sixths', sextārius 'a one-sixth part of a congius, 'pint', and so on. [3]