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In this latter book she presented a 30 page appendix on the theory of infinite cardinals and ordinals.
In 1907 he introduced special types of ordinals in an attempt to prove Cantor's continuum hypothesis.
Form numbers are conceived as ordinals, with units conceived as being well ordered.
In Sweden, the practice is not consistent, as Sigismund and Adolf Frederick never have ordinals, whereas Frederick I often does.
Other monarchies assign ordinals to monarchs even if they are the only ones of their name.
For instance, ordinals 21 and 22, Ishmael and Isaac, are both sons of Abram, ordinal 20, and thus redundant.
While reigning monarchs use ordinals, ordinals are not used for royal female consorts.
These include Euro and Yen symbols, superscript and subscript numerals, Spanish ordinals and several combining accents.
Ordinals for monarchs before the 13th century are anachronisms, as are also ordinals for almost all later medieval monarchs.
Having solved the open problem posed by Davenport on writing numbers as the sums of fifth powers, Conway began to become interested in infinite ordinals.
Almost all monarchs and popes after mediaeval times have used ordinals.
As a rule of thumb, medieval European monarchs did not use ordinals at their own time, and those who used were rarities and even their use was sporadic.
Popes were apparently the first to assume official ordinals for their reigns, although this occurred only in the last centuries of the Middle Ages.
In the case of personal unions, one king has often have more than one ordinal, because he has had different ordinals in the different realms where he reigns.
Numbers were written in Arabic numerals, in small case Roman numerals, or spelled out using Ordinals in preference to Cardinals.
Examples from Classical Literature
What business has this cardinal number octiesque uno in a row of ordinals?
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