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nth1 /ɛnθ /adjective Mathematics1Denoting an unspecified member of a series of numbers or enumerated items: systematic sampling by taking every nth name from the list...- In 1865 Fuchs studied nth order linear ordinary differential equations with complex functions as coefficients.
- Euler starts with an nth degree polynomial p with the following properties.
- Although not the first to do so, al-Kashi gave an algorithm for calculating nth roots which is a special case of the methods given many centuries later by Ruffini and Horner.
1.1(In general use) denoting an unspecified item or instance in a series, typically the last or latest in a long series: he had just been booted out of his digs for the nth time...- Now, Irishness seems to include fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, nth generations of so-called ‘Irish people’ - and it is these ‘lost Irish’ who are being targeted to tick the box in the census.
- But we are once again dealing with nth generation reproduction, without any remastering or reconfiguration.
- While I'm not keen on the notion that we're all dependent on something in these addiction-obsessed times, I know that my fondness for adrenaline-surfing exceeds healthy limits and that (for the nth time) I need to Do Something About It.
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