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Number Forms is a Unicode block containing Unicode compatibility characters that have specific meaning as numbers, but are constructed from other characters.They consist primarily of vulgar fractions and Roman numerals.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
A cake with one quarter (one fourth) removed. The remaining three fourths are shown by dotted lines and labeled by the fraction 1 ⁄ 4.. A fraction (from Latin: fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts.
In linguistics, ordinal numerals or ordinal number words are words representing position or rank in a sequential order; the order may be of size, importance, chronology, and so on (e.g., "third", "tertiary").
A fraction of one fourth, one quarter, 25% or 0.25; 1/4 (single album), a single album by South Korean band Onewe; See also. Fourth (disambiguation)
The quarter (lit. "one-fourth") was used as the name of several distinct English units based on ¼ sizes of some base unit. The "quarter of London" mentioned by Magna Carta as the national standard measure for wine, ale, and grain [1] was ¼ ton or tun. It continued to be used, e.g. to regulate the prices of bread. [2]
In Arabic, rubʿ means 'one-fourth' or 'quarter', while ḥizb (plural aḥzāb) translates to 'a group'. The Quran is divided into 60 aḥzāb (groups of roughly equal length in turn grouped into 30 ajzāʾ ), with instances of Rub el Hizb further dividing each ḥizb into four, for a total of 240 divisions.
As an exception to the above rules, numbers ending with 11, 12, and 13 use -th (e.g. 11th, pronounced eleventh, 112th, pronounced one hundred [and] twelfth)-th is used for all other numbers (e.g. 9th, pronounced ninth). One archaic variant uses a singular -d for numbers ending in 2 or 3 (e.g. 92d or 33d)