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Created Oct 18, 2021 by Frédéric Wang@fred-wang

Orca badly reads generic Nth root

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_root https://w3c.github.io/mathml-core/#radicals-msqrt-mroot

If you open a page with the following MathML content in Firefox:

    <math>
      <mroot>
        <mn>3</mn>
        <msqrt>
          <mn>42</mn>
        </msqrt>
      </mroot>
    </math>

then Orca reads it as "square root of 42 root end root of 3 root end", which is read exactly the same as

    <math>
      <msqrt>
        <mn>42</mn>
      </msqrt>
      <msqrt>
        <mn>3</mn>
      </msqrt>
    </math>

Instead it should read it as "(square root of 42 end root)-TH root of 3, root end" or "N-th root of degree square root of 42 root end of 3 root end" or something similar to avoid ambiguity.

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