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Do footnoting superscripts go inside or outside punctuation?
When using superscripts to indicate a footnote, do these fall inside or outside adjacent punctuation? If there is an answer, is that answer applicable worldwide, or just to specific regions or ...
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“20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” [closed]
When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript?
20th century
20th century
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Why abbreviation for “Definition” as “Def^n” (math context)
I've seen in math and physics lectures delivered in English, that people use to abreviate the commonly very used word "Definition" by "Def n"(Def superscript n). What's the meaning of this n? That is, ...
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Phase transition: 1st order, first-order, 1 superscript st - order
I have read several articles from non-native speakers about phase transitions. They are roughly classified in different orders, depending on the behavior of thermodynamic potentials at the phase ...
