Timeline for What do you call something that is not first in a sequence?
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| Jun 9, 2022 at 11:18 | comment | added | The Amateur Coder | @tchrist, shortened phrases/such notations needn't (and in many cases, would even say most) mean much/be grammatically correct, like mathematical expressions, and programming, in many languages, you have to put a semi-colon at the end of each line of code. | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 22:14 | comment | added | user3490 | Would you care to propose an alternative superscript? Statistically speaking, th will be correct in ~70% of cases. | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 22:13 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Because I don’t like seeing the th next to the 1. | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 22:12 | comment | added | user3490 | Those forms are not required for unknown nth, even when n might be in {1,2,3}, so why use them for (n>1)th? | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 22:00 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | But 1ˢᵗ, 2ⁿᵈ, and 3ʳᵈ have special forms. | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 21:52 | comment | added | user3490 | @tchrist No worse than 0th, surely? | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 21:48 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | “Oneth”? Really? | |
| Nov 4, 2012 at 21:43 | history | answered | user3490 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |