On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:12 PM, R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote: > What I stated has nothing to do with the difference in cardinals and > ordinals. It has to do with counting. > It is completely valid to use the cardinals and count 0,1,2,... for the > number of apples you have, but it is absurd to use these numbers as ordinals > and say apple 0,1,2,....
Oops, I got them swapped. You are right that cardinal numbers are counts. It's ordinal numbers that go "first", "second", "third"... Sorry about that error. (I make many errors and often try to verify my wording before I post. But clearly I have room for improvement.) Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
