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Re: Numbers and math

From:Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...>
Date:Sunday, September 24, 2000, 2:15
Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote: > > > - do you form ordinals from cardinals? how? if not, how? > > Cardinal is one, ordinal is first, right? (Sorry, I can't tell my -inals > apart!)
It's easy. In order to use an ORDinal you must have an ORDering. If you have three apples, you can say there are "three" of them without ordering them in any way, but you have to impose an order first before you can say which one is the "third" one. =========================================================================== Dennis Paul Himes <> dennis@himes.connix.com homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air." - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99