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+v6.1.1
+======
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ``ordinal`` now handles float types correctly without first coercing them to strings. (#178)
+
+
 v6.1.0
 ======
 
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-``ordinal`` now handles float types correctly without first coercing them to strings.