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The team also noted that drawings showing ordinal representations were more frequently associated with a one-step solution, even if the problem was cardinal.

“The only way a person could determine an elector’s ordinal position is by personally observing that elector cast his or her ballot.”

The assumption is that something of the essence of institutions, public or private, small or large, religious or not, can be distilled by crunching data and assembling lists with ordinal numbers.

In other words, Mr. Forman invited applicants to observe, collect and then make ordinal sense of exactly the same jungle of information the U.S.

The sections are constructed of scraps and vignettes, fragmentary pieces of memory that hop around the time line, following their own ordinal logic.