cardinal : Java Glossary

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cardinal
In English, the words one, two, three, which refer to abstract quantities, called cardinals. This contrasts with the words first, second, third are called ordinals, referring to some thing’s place in an ordering.

In Modula, cardinals are the unsigned ints and ordinals are the signed ints.

English Ordinals and Cardinals
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