On 26/04/2013 1:15 p.m., Ethan Furman wrote:
> Lots of counting systems wrap: seconds, minutes, hours, days of week,
> days of month, days of year, millimeters, inches, etc., etc.
But we don't disagree on which is the first minute of an hour.
> We still apply ordering to them, and talk about 15 <whatevers>
> being less than 42 <whatevers>.
When we do that, we're using cardinal numbers (how many), not ordinal
numbers (what order).
--
Greg
