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Off by one solitude (fed.dyne.org)

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[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I kind of brought this up in another comment, that "first" and "1st" aren't really the same thing. Which is confusing when you extend that to fourth/4th five/5th. I don't generally see someone write "zeroith", but I'll see "0th".

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[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

And here I thought people write "1st" because they are lazy and want to press 3 keys instead of 5.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

First and 1st are certainly different symbols for the same concept

The spelling for the index before the first is zeroth, no need to insert an extra vowel

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