| [ EnglishOnly ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): parsec ( 먼 소 류 ) 날 짜 (Date): 2000년 11월 27일 월요일 오전 12시 59분 13초 제 목(Title): Re: [q] 1/21 I reckon those ordinal numbers come from picking things up in some given rate. Say, picking every tenth of the cattle gave you `tenth' of the cattle. In the movie `The Tenth Man' you can see how the ordinal numbers are used in non-mathematical cases. `One over twenty one' is, I would say, a correct math term of 1/21. But `a twenty-first' will also pass for daily usage. Am I right? |