The number 8 can be used in three ways: to tell "how many," to tell "where" in a ranking, and to name someone or something. The girl with the number 8 on her baseball uniform, who is 8th in the batting order, playing on a team that scores 8 runs, is...

In set theory, ordinal, ordinal number, and transfinite ordinal number refer to a type of number introduced by Georg Cantor in 1897[1] to accommodate infinite sequences and to classify sets with certain kinds of order structures on them.[2] Ordinals are...

Abstract Previous research has demonstrated cross-language variation in early counting associated with linguistic differences in number-naming systems. Ordinal number names are typically learned later than cardinal names, but languages also differ in the regularity with which they form these names. Elementary school children in...

All existing security alarm permits more than a month old will expire March 2003 if the Oklahoma City Council approves a new ordinance on Nov. 5. During Tuesday's council meeting, Oklahoma City Chief of Police M.T. Berry explained a proposed ordinance designed to...