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1s in other ordinals were misread, but two 1s next to each other were misread wildly more often than anything else. My current theory, which I only hint at in the last paragraph, was that "nth" was in the OCR dictionary, "nth" is close to "11th" in pixel space, and no other ordinal is that similar to a dictionary word. Therefore, "11th" gets misread most often.


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