Citations:nothingth

English citations of nothingth

Noun: a zeroth; zero; nothing

• 1979 (first edition), Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, →ISBN, page 64:

  A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of of an inch wide, and quite a lot of millions of light years from end to end.

Adjective: (nonstandard, mathematics or general usage) zeroth

• 1804, George Baron, The Mathematical Correspondant, page 68

  it follows, that, the nothingth power of a an infinite number is equal to a unit.

• 2014, Kim Newman, Bad Dreams, →ISBN, page 6

  Oh yes, you people have to have a nothingth floor.