RE: nth?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

John Posada wrote: 
 
> Would you add an attribute if it was 5th instead of nth? I 
> wouldn't...it's the same thing, just where they aren't using 
> the specfic number.
> 
> --- Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a report with the phrase "it is possible to take every nth 
> > brand into the sample". I want to italicize or in some way 
> make "nth"
> > stand out. Suggestions? Just italics for the n? the th?

If it were 5th, the 5 would be a constant. Since it's nth, the n is a
variable. I'd italicize the n because by convention, we italicize
variables. Treat the n as you do other variables. 

Richard 


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