cardinal numbers

1. Numbers that indicate the quantity of things in a group or set, but not the order or arrangement of those things. One, two, and one thousand are cardinal numbers. (Compare ordinal numbers.)

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In addition to the cardinal numbers defined so far, there are two important cardinal characteristics—𝔟 and 𝔡—that refer to dominating functions of real numbers.

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Chapters in books are usually given the cardinal numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on.

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This attaching to the cardinal numbers above three or four the meanings of the ordinal numbers seems to affect many children on entrance to school.

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This whole process is familiar; it gives the series of the positive whole numbers, that is, the cardinal numbers.

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Few persons have an adequate idea of the important part the cardinal numbers are now playing in the cause of Liberty.

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