Difference between revisions of "Cardinal Number (definition)"
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| − | + | Numbers that are used in the syntactical sense for denoting a quantity. . For example, in the sentence, "That cool cat had three chicks" Three is a cardinal number, as a opposed to '''ordinal numbers''' which indicate order, as in first, second, and third, or '''numerals''' which are the specific words in a language that represent a number, like the word ''one-hundred''. | |
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Revision as of 02:16, 14 December 2011
Numbers that are used in the syntactical sense for denoting a quantity. . For example, in the sentence, "That cool cat had three chicks" Three is a cardinal number, as a opposed to ordinal numbers which indicate order, as in first, second, and third, or numerals which are the specific words in a language that represent a number, like the word one-hundred.
See also
External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_numbers
