numerojärjestys
Numerojärjestys refers to the ordering of numbers or the sequence in which items are arranged or labeled. It is closely tied to the concept of ordinality, where position in a list or ranking is what matters rather than quantity. In Finnish, the standard term for ordinal numbers is järjestysluvut, with examples such as ensimmäinen (first), toinen (second), kolmas (third). The phrase numerojärjestys can be used more generally to describe how numbers are organized in a sequence, though the precise mathematical concept is commonly expressed with ordinal numbers and järjestysluvut.
In practice, numerojärjestys appears in several domains. In mathematics, ordinal positions denote the order of elements
See also: järjestysluvut, luvuista muodostuvat järjestykset, sort, indexing, enumeration.