O-FIRST-COEFF.html -- ACL2 Version 6.3

### O-FIRST-COEFF

returns the first coefficient of an ordinal

    Major Section:  ACL2-BUILT-INS

An ACL2 ordinal is either a natural number or, for an infinite ordinal, a list whose elements are exponent-coefficient pairs (see o-p). In the latter case, this function returns the `cdr` of the first pair in the list. In the case of a natural number, this function returns the ordinal itself (since a natural number, n, can be thought of as (w^0)n).

For the corresponding exponent, see o-first-expt.

To see the ACL2 definition of this function, see pf.