marmota_b

Belated thanks for that clarification. :D Czech has a similar thing to "to the nth power", actually. The terminology - for all levels of the operation - is, literally translated, something like "onto the nth", and you might specifically say, colloquially, "onto the nth" to say that something is something to a huge amount. ETA: I mean, it's a mathematical term that's filtered down into colloquial metaphorical usage.