👉 In mathematics, "ordinal" is a concept used to describe a property that depends on position rather than order. Ordinals are a type of number system in which each value corresponds to an infinite set of ordered pairs, where the first element of each pair is less than or equal to the second and so on. Ordinals can be represented as sequences of natural numbers, starting from 0, with each term being greater than the previous one. For example, the ordinal number 1 is defined as