Matthew Beard works for the University of Notre Dame, Australia, a Catholic University. This morning, Australian Catholics awoke to the news that black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine ...
On this morning after the surprise announcement that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning at the end of the month, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli looks at the numbers and concludes it's more than likely the next ...
A number that states how many of something. In "record 43 has 7 fields," the 7 is the cardinal number. Contrast with "ordinal number," which identifies a sequence such as "record 43." See cardinality.