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    Math Definitions -> C -> Cardinal Number

 Cardinal Number

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Cardinal numbers (or cardinals) are numbers that say how many of something there are, such as one, two, three, four, five.

Answers the question "How Many?"

Example: there are five coins.

(Ordinal numbers tell the position of something in a list, such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.)

See: Ordinal Number


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