Determining Rank

I have a query that shows the top N count(*)'s.

So it's basically:

select some_val, count(*) 
from big_table
group by some_val
order by count(*)
limit 50

Now, I would like to have the rank included in the result set.  The
first row would be 1, followed by 2, etc. all the way to 50.

I can do this in PHP, but stuffing it into the DB query makes other
things easier.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-Don

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