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Numeral is a part of speech denoting number or order - Coggle Diagram
Numeral
is a part of speech denoting number or order
cardinals
are used in counting
answer the question: How many?
There are ten students in my class.
can turn into nouns
Hundreds
went to the show.
two million citizens but millions of citizens
ordinals
denote order or position and answer the question Which?
Most of them are formed from cardinal numerals by means of the suffix -th (sixth, seventh, etc., except first, second, and third).
preceded by
the definite article
:
the fourth day
Fractional numbers
the numerator is a cardinal numeral and the denominator is an ordinal (used as a noun)::
two-thirds
three-sixths
Decimal fractions: 1.62 = one point six two
The spoken forms of 0
nought
used in mathematics:
0.7 = nought point seven
zero
used in science, for example, in temperatures:
-15 °C = minus fifteen degrees or fifteen degrees below zero
о [əν]
used in telephone numbers:
01 -500-3026 = о one five double o, three о two six
nil or nothing
used in scores in such games as football:
2-0 = the score was two
nothing
/two
nil
Roman numerals
Books use various numbering systems, including
Roman numerals:
I, II,III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX,X for 1-10.
Dates on monuments are also sometimes written in Roman, e. g. 1985 would be MCMLXXXV, where:
M=1000,D=500,С=100,L=50