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What he asked me was, How can we ask a question in English that elicits an ordinal number as answer?
1. What is the rank/position/ordinal number of Bill Clinton as the President/among the presidents of the US?
To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.
We further considered a transformation to an ordinal scale.
Sir Randolph Quirk, the most famous British grammarian, says that the ordinal question can be obliquely asked in English like this: How many presidents were there before Bill Clinton?