英语词汇“cardinal number”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cardinal number

noun

A number denoting quantity (one, two, three, etc.), as opposed to an ordinal number (first, second, third, etc.).The ancient Greeks had different systems for cardinal numbers and ordinal numbers so we must look carefully at what we mean by Greek number systems....

There is a story that it was used as prefix to a number when it was supposed to be read as a cardinal number instead of an ordinal number (#21 = read this as twenty first instead of twenty one).
For finite sets, the cardinal numbers are the whole numbers.

单词	cardinal number
释义	cardinal number noun A number denoting quantity (one, two, three, etc.), as opposed to an ordinal number (first, second, third, etc.).The ancient Greeks had different systems for cardinal numbers and ordinal numbers so we must look carefully at what we mean by Greek number systems.... There is a story that it was used as prefix to a number when it was supposed to be read as a cardinal number instead of an ordinal number (#21 = read this as twenty first instead of twenty one). For finite sets, the cardinal numbers are the whole numbers.
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