Members can raise in the numerical ranks as reward for their successes, or be "dealt out" at the discretion of Wild Card.

Note that the card's numerical rank is of sole importance; suit values are irrelevant in Hold'em.

In 1747 regiments were required to establish their precedence, with each unit taking a numerical "rank".

"The day that we handed out numerical rank was one of the worst days in my professional life," said Margaret Loonam, a co-principal and director of guidance at Ridgewood High School, a public school in northern New Jersey that stopped telling students and colleges about class rank a decade ago.

Thus one can only calculate the numerical rank by making a decision which of the eigenvalues are close enough to zero.

But last Tuesday, the morning of Jon S. Corzine's inauguration, there was some confusion about another figure: precisely what was Mr. Corzine's numerical rank on the list of the state's governors.

Not much time, really - 9 hours a week is probably what more-competitive writers spend just checking the numerical rank of their latest book on Amazon.com and spreading propaganda about their careers.

In a few cases a more detailed representation is needed to resolve ambiguity; if so, the piece's file letter, numerical rank, or the exact square is inserted after the moving piece's name (in that order of preference).

Using a patent-pending process of link analysis, Google's technology gives a numerical rank to Web pages based on the number of times those pages are linked from an authoritative Web site.