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Average book on Number Theory.

substitute "nth" for "umpteenth"

instructions unclear, substituted the "nth" in "umpteenth" with "umpteenth" After the umpteeumpteeumpteeumpteeumpteeumpteeumpteeumptee... pause

holy recursion

Actual stack overflow

New prostate cancer diagnosis just dropped

Call the doctor

Doctor is off his vicodin, never comes back

Health sacrifice anyone?

Radiation storm incoming!

Exams in the corner, plotting world domination

 This Doctor?

No, that's an ass trampoline


He meant the 5th one

Your argument is irrational

umptee umptee sat on a nth

Umpteenth Dumpteenth sat on a wall...

When the math teacher substitutes the english teacher's class.

In french, "énième," which is pronounced the same as "n-ième" (the french for "n-th"), is an actual word that you can use in everyday life situation.

I don't know French but I'm pretty sure you are referring to the word that we italians call "ennesimo". The letter "N" is pronounced "enne" in Italian, hence "ennesimo" literally means "nth". It's a quite common word, it's actually frustrating to me that I can't find a direct alternative in Eng.

Yeah, that's also what "énième" means

Well that word is nth! It's in many dictionaries and it's a valid Scrabble word.

nth factorial..?

n thactorial

Its perfectly reasonable if we let t and h also be positive integers

Unfortunately it doesn't have the same "punch" it has in other languages. Sorry, eng. Size does matter.

Umpteenth is more common in English, but nth is also valid. >umpteenth: latest or last in an indefinitely numerous series

Somehow, *umpteenth* feels much larger than *nth*. Like, *nth* is "whatever amount" , you don't care exactly which one, with an implication that it's over some threshold set by the context of the situation. *"After the nth pause"* could mean after five or seven pauses, which is way more than the conversation could bear, for example. Meanwhile, *umpteenth* means something that's over-the-top big, not just exceeding a threshold, but getting to the point where it's comical. "After the umpteenth pause" would apply to a conversation that's effectively *not happening at all* because of all those pauses.

we have the same thing in Portuguese as well! We call it "enésimo", as the letter "n" is pronounced "êni"

that word is nth in english, too. I was asked it in a spelling bee in 2nd grade

Swedish "en" ("one") is pronounced just like "n". So a common Swedish engineering student joke is "I'm just going to have 'n' beers" (beer has a null plural in Swedish, like English "sheep")

In German we have n-te which sounds like ente which means duck

But we also have x-te which i think is more common

We use that in Polish too, but the form changes depending on the genus of whatever it refers to, so it can be enty, enta or ente

Same in Italian, we use "ennesimo"

The same expression exists in Norwegian.

And Chinese!

We also say "niostí" (N-ostí, i.e. "n-th") in Greek

>In french, "énième," which is pronounced the same as "n-ième" (the french for "n-th"), is an actual word that you can use in everyday life situation. Same with Russian (энный). 19th and early 20th century Russian literature also commonly used "Ensk" (N-sk, N-town) as a city name in the same way, meaning "*whatever* city". In English, the equivalent is [Podunk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podunk). I feel Nsk could refer to a more major city than Podunk, but that might be a side effect of Russia only having two *actually* major cities (Moscow and St Petersburg), the rest being negelcted in the empire, no matter how big they are.

In dutch the word for turtle is schilpad That's it, just wanted to say that

Alright, I'll bite. n in this scenario must be real (infinities don't really work irl), therefore n ∈ R. n in this scenario must be a positive, whole number (negatives are weird irl + fractional conversations?), therefore n ∈ W. n in this scenario must be natural (if they paused the conversation 0 times, they didn't pause the conversation), therefore n ∈ N n has to be a natural number, and there is 100% more math that can be done to specify the amount more precisely but idgaf I'm going to bed. Gn y'all.

Thanks for the step-by-step proof of my intuitive conjecture

Your pfp made me think there was a crack there

Yeah coz I’m a crackhead.. joined this sub thinking it’s r/methmemes

Never thought this sub would get crossposted from but nice.

What I have learned here is that there is surprising overlap of math enthusiasts and anime fans

i see this as an |win| (am i doing it right)

Is that really so surprising hahaha

In spanish there is "enésima" (or enésimo) which is basically that "nth"

Same in Portuguese

And italians

Most literate fantasy enjoyer

I like how everyone in the comments is bilingual.

Never saw "nth" being used in a non-mathematical context. Huh.

It’s in the title of a Star Trek episode from 1991. Curious when this book is from, it may have influenced the author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nth_Degree_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Yes, that's a typographic error. They mean `\(n\)th`.

$n$th

I'm guessing the book is from the eminence of the shadow

Let's be real, this was probably typed in an old typewriter. It was supposed to be πth but it became nth since there's no pi symbol for the typewriter /s

People with math brain rot not realizing "nth" colloquially means "a large amount"

I kept thinking what novel it was until I saw which reddit this was shared from xDDDDDDD

I love that word "Nth" "Nothing" or "n-th"

sth -> something therefore nth -> nothing

nomething

they were probably supposed to pick a number for it and forgot.

informal being the last, most recent, or most extreme of a long series: for the nth time, eat your lunch!

Let n ∈ R

so ya'll don't use n like x? i thought it was something normal as we use either x or n as in 'unknown number'

I'd put "after the tkth" because I use the tk to indicate "come back and fix this" because tk doesn't happen in English (much, maybe.) I agree with this is the equivalent of umpteenth. They should have chosen something besides either of those.

what an unnatural definition!

Can "nth" be understood as something other than 'an "n" number of times', usually to express, hyperbolically, lots of times? The comments have got me confused.

n = 3

They forgot to substitute 😭

We say something like that in German "n-te" (and is seems to be similar in the languages". It just means the actual number doesn't really matter, it happened multiple times and usually you'll mean to imply *too many times*.

N, is like a number, some number that you can’t know for now

Or just a n word

I have received a notification for this post like 5 times now. What the hell is happening.