<s>
In	O
computer	B-General_Concept
programming	I-General_Concept
,	O
an	O
ordinal	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
type	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
data	O
type	O
with	O
the	O
property	O
that	O
its	O
values	O
can	O
be	O
counted	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
the	O
values	O
are	O
often	O
implemented	O
as	O
integers	O
(	O
or	O
similar	O
types	O
such	O
as	O
bytes	O
)	O
they	O
are	O
assigned	O
literal	O
names	O
and	O
the	O
programming	O
language	O
(	O
and	O
the	O
compiler	B-Language
for	O
that	O
language	O
)	O
can	O
enforce	O
that	O
variables	O
only	O
be	O
assigned	O
those	O
literals	O
.	O
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