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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 ).
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 ...
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.
For singular ordinal numbers, shortened forms use the feminine (ª) and masculine (º) ordinal indicators, [6] rather than the superscript a and o, except in ordinal numbers ending in -er (only before masculine singular sustantives for ordinal numbers whose cardinal equivalent finishes in 1 and 3, except with the 11.º variant spelled undécimo).
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One more thing. Small numbers are best spelled out in most contexts: fourth and eighth. This applies to ordinal numbers just as much as cardinal numbers. Stephen Turner 10:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC) I agree that there should be a bullet point about the ordinal superscripting.
The groom-to-be designed a "little scoring system" for each potential guest using Google Sheets. Each person is numerically ranked on a scale of zero to 10 based on four categories, then is ...