Entwaesserung

Eintrag vom: 10.05.2013.

Bear in mind that uppercased ordinals are used for specific concepts like TM (Trade Mark) or SM (Service Mark) because of this I do not recommend using uppercase for the ordinal indicator given.

 

Which ordinal indicator if any should be used on symbolic math variables? Ask Question Asked 12 years ago Modified 8 years 3 months ago

 

In English orthography there are four ordinal indicators: st nd rd for 1 2 and 3 and th for all the rest including variables or unreal numbers. Writing the indicator as a superscript with or without underlining derives from the practice of Latin scribes.

 

This is an ordinal indicator. In written languages an ordinal indicator is a character or group of characters following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number rather than a cardinal ...

 

Recently I received a few corrections on my research article. One of them was that the ordinal indicators like 'th' 'rd' etc. should be inline with the number and not as a superscript. For exam...

 

This is an ordinal indicator. In written languages an ordinal indicator is a character or group of characters following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number rather than a cardinal number.

 

It's an ordinal indicator: In written languages an ordinal indicator is a letter or group of letters following a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number rather than a cardinal number. Historically these letters were "elevated terminals" that is to say the last few letters of the full word denoting the ordinal form of the number displayed as a superscript. The exact letters used vary ...