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Ordinals

Spell out "first", "second" and so on up to "ninth". Use numbers and "st" / "nd" / "th" for 10th and over:

I came second in the foot race last year, but this year I came 162nd.

But never do this when writing dates:

My parcel arrived on the 5th of December.

My parcel arrived on 5 December.