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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-3-2 on page I-155 in "fmtcount --- Ordinals and cardinals".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
\sloppy % not much space available

\setlength\parindent{0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{fmtcount}
\newcommand\nth[1]{\ordinalstringnum{#1}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
We select the \nth{1}, \nth{13}, \nth{14} and \nth{22}.
\end{document}