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MrPernickety Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

A question about numbers

Hi,

Let's assume that I have a group of ten people fall in and ordered them to count off by tens. Hence, everyone is assigned their unique number. What do we call such numbers ?

My idea is "each person got his/her sequential number", although I'm dubious about that.

Could you clear this up for me, please ?

Thanks !
  

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" When you say that people are "assigned numbers," it's understood that each number is unique unless you specify otherwise. I had the students line up and count off by tens. They were then instructed to remember their number and use it in the day's activities.

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  • " When you say that people are "assigned numbers," it's understood that each number is unique unless you specify otherwise.
  • I had the students line up and count off by tens.
  • They were then instructed to remember their number and use it in the day's activities.
  • All of the participants were assigned a number, and for the rest of the workshop they addressed one another by number instead of by name.
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As rich as the English language is, I don't think we have a word for "a number assigned to an individual when a group is asked to count off sequentially." If I were describing such a setup, I'd just call it "a number." When you say that people are "assigned numbers," it's understood that each number is unique unless you specify otherwise.

I had the students line up and count off by te
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MrPernicketyMy idea is "each person got his/her sequential number", although I'm dubious about that.
Those don't ring true. "Assigned number" or "Group number" is all I can think of. There really isn't any special word for it.

CJ
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