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I was trying to find an alias for "dword" and from my Pascal experience the word "cardinal" comes to mind. The meaning of "dword" is very straight forward, double word or 4-bytes. Cardinal is a mathematical term but why was it chosen to represent a dword or 32-bit number?

Cardinals in Pascal are unsigned.
In the C world 'long' is at least 32-bits.

Indeed, cardinals are for counting, mathematically speaking, and unsigned numbers are also good for counting.