Tickets or forms are numbered for ease of use/tracking in the user's environment.

Printing a unique number on a job (i.e. tickets)

usually used on NCR sets or raffle tickets.

Assigned for inventory and sampling purposes. Log number: each log is assigned a separate number. Flitch number: half a log is given a separate number. Section number: sometimes different sections are numbered by adding a dash and another number to the log or flitch number to show it came from the same tree. Bundle number: number given to a specific number of sheets that are tied together.

Usually done offline, the process by which collated sheets are consecutively numbered, e.g. for order books.

In computability theory a numbering is the assignment of natural numbers to a set of objects like rational numbers, graphs or words in some language. A numbering can be used to transfer the computability concept, which is strictly defined on the natural numbers using computable functions, to different objects.

This refers to the practice, almost universal in contemporary print but not always so, where a number such as 8/10 means that it is the eighth impression in an edition of ten.

A command that enable you to number a bulleted list.

a numbered list