What is the ordinal form of zero and how do you spell it all out? (Is it 0st, 0nd, 0rd, 0th)?
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Egao No Genki
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The ordinal form of zero is zeroth and thus it is abbreviated 0th.
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Zeroth, though I had always just thought it was "none," I was wrong. Merriam Webster is my (and your) friend!
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I would say "Noughth". Most ordinals in English follow the standard pattern of "-th", so "seventh", "millionth", etc. Down at the small end of the scale, though, things get a bit quirky: "third", "second", "first", which are basically medieval English formations. Since "zero" was virtually unknown in medieval English, and the usage to denote 0 was "nought", I'd go for "noughth".
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Practical mathmatician here. Zero is not an ordinal. Zero has no value but to take up space in a number.
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