Re: Negative ordinality (was: Please welcome . . .)

Ray Brown scripsit:

> >>I've never heard of `minus oneth', though; ...
>
> 'oneth'? 'minus first' surely?
I pronounce n+1th as en-plus-oneth, and others do too:

        "The answer then", said Doctor Blair,
           Who's worked on it a month,
        "y is not merely x^n
           "But x^(n+1)."

I've forgotten the author, but it's either in _Fantasia Mathematica_
or (less likely) _The Mathematical Magpie_, both ed. Clifton Fadiman.

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