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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

75.0. "Ordinal numbers" by MILOS::CALLAS () Mon May 20 1985 23:41

I was at a lecture in Maynard today, and the person giving the talk was talking
about functions that are continuous in the order (k-1). The way he pronounced it
was "K-minus-first." I found this interesting, because I would have said
"K-minus-one-th." 

	Jon
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75.1ERIE::CANTORThu May 23 1985 01:323
First order less than K?

Dave C.
75.2METEOR::CALLASTue Jun 04 1985 01:411
Yes.
75.3HUMAN::SZETOFri Jul 19 1985 01:033
  Ah, but would you have said "twenty-oneth," "forty-twoth," and so forth?

--Simon