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How To Use ordinal In A Sentence

• In 1907 he introduced special types of ordinals in an attempt to prove Cantor's continuum hypothesis.
• Ordinal numbers are used in these sentences: 'She was fifth in the race' and 'They celebrated the 200th anniversary of the university's foundation'.
• Achreioptera: ordinal term proposed for the coleopterous family Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• P are ordinally similar with respect to hypotheses that entail Bayes' Theorem
• Among logicians and mathematicians he is in addition famous for his work on set theory, model theory and algebra, which includes results and developments such as the Banach-Tarski paradox, the theorem on the indefinability of truth (see section 2 below), the completeness and decidability of elementary algebra and geometry, and the notions of cardinal, ordinal, relation and cylindric algebras. Alfred Tarski
• The same procedure was followed for the two most abundant taxa identified at the ordinal level.
• family and ordinal names of animals and plants
• Having solved the open problem posed by Davenport on writing numbers as the sums of fifth powers, Conway began to become interested in infinite ordinals.
• He adaptative me of uncreative lil contaminating hotel in los angeles he has and one kludge a ordinal lowan in las morgen with absently hypersensitised. Rational Review
• Not even her feignt reflection, Nuvoluccia, could they toke their gnoses off for their minds with intrepifide fate and bungless curiasity, were conclaved with Heliogobbleus and Commodus and Enobarbarus and whatever the coordinal dickens they did as their damprauch of papyrs and buchstubs said. Finnegans Wake