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Second of the small PRs from daisy#715, and independent of daisy#720 (different rules).

How Japanese reads an exponent

山口雄仁・川根深・澤崎陽彦「日本語による数式読み上げ法の基本構成について」日本数学教育学会誌 78(9), 239–247 (1996), item (6)

  • x² is 「x の 2 乗」 — base, の, exponent, 乗. 乗 is the closing marker, and the reference says it is spoken as a matter of course for exponents.
  • There is no ordinal form: 2 stays 2. Japanese does not say "the second power" the way English does, so ToOrdinal has nothing to build here, and the English -th pronunciation hint does not apply either.
  • When the exponent is complex, the reference switches to reading it as a superscript instead: 「の上付き … 上付き終了」.

That second tier solves the problem the English comments in these files worry about. Because 乗 already closes a simple exponent, a nested exponent would otherwise end 「… 乗 乗」 — the exact analogue of "...power power". Using 上付き for the nested case avoids it.

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was now
「スクエア」 (katakana "square") 「の 2 乗」
「キューブド」 (katakana "cubed") 「の 3 乗」
「パワー」 after a simple exponent 「乗」
「パワーの」 ("power of") reordered — see below
「に上げられた」 ("was raised") 「の上付き」
「エンド指数」 「上付き終了」
「緊急事態に育つ」 「の上付き」
「力に育つ」 「の」 (with 「乗」 added to close)

The last two are worth spelling out: raised to the exponent had become 緊急事態に育つ, "to grow in an emergency", and raised to the power had become 力に育つ, "to grow into strength". Neither is about mathematics.

function-power needed reordering rather than a word swap. English puts the exponent first ("the fourth power of sine"); Japanese puts the base first — sin⁴ is 「サイン の 4 乗」 — so the rule now emits *[1], 「の」, *[2], 「乗」.

ToOrdinal and the pronounce: [text: "-th", ...] hint are removed from the power rules for the reason above. In ClearSpeak this also means $ClearSpeak_Exponents = 'Ordinal' no longer suppresses the closing 「乗」: that preference selects English's short ordinal form ("x squared" vs "x to the second power"), and Japanese has only the one form, so dropping 乗 there would leave 「x の 5」, which does not say that 5 is an exponent.

Tests

squared updated, and now checks SimpleSpeak as well as ClearSpeak. Added cubed, integer_exponent (x⁵), and variable_exponent (xⁿ), each in both styles.

Not covered here: negative exponents. x⁻² currently comes out as 「x の 負の 2 乗」, and 「マイナス 2 乗」 is what the reference's worked example implies (it reads −b as 「マイナス b」). But 負の/正の is the prefix reading of negative numbers generally, and 正の is correct where it appears in general.yaml for "the set of positive integers", so that is a separate change rather than something to slip in here.

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  • Enhancements

    • Improved Japanese speech for powers and exponents in ClearSpeak and SimpleSpeak.
    • Standardized squared, cubed, integer, negative, and variable exponent phrasing using the “の … 乗” format.
    • Updated nested and general power expressions for clearer Japanese pronunciation.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for squared, cubed, integer, and variable exponents across both speech styles.

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Japanese ClearSpeak and SimpleSpeak exponent rules now use consistent “の X 乗” wording. Superscript phrases use “の上付き” and “上付き終了”. Japanese tests cover squared, cubed, integer, and variable exponents in both speech styles.

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Japanese exponent speech

Layer / File(s) Summary
ClearSpeak exponent phrasing
Rules/Languages/ja/ClearSpeak_Rules.yaml
ClearSpeak power rules now use “の X 乗” and “上付き” wording. Ordinal conversion and conditional “パワー” speech were removed.
SimpleSpeak exponent phrasing
Rules/Languages/ja/SimpleSpeak_Rules.yaml
SimpleSpeak power rules now use consistent exponent and superscript wording. Ordinal conversion and “パワー” phrasing were removed.
Japanese exponent speech tests
tests/Languages/ja/ja.rs
Tests cover squared, cubed, integer, and variable exponents in both ClearSpeak and SimpleSpeak.

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Nested exponents may omit the closing spoken marker for users in non-blindness impairment modes, producing incomplete mathematical speech. This is a bounded, localized correctness issue that is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up fix.

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In `@Rules/Languages/ja/SimpleSpeak_Rules.yaml`:
- Around line 251-257: Update the superscript sequence after x: "*[2]" so 上付き終了
is emitted unconditionally for every impairment mode; remove the blindness-only
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Comment on lines +251 to +257
- t: "の上付き" # phrase(15 'raised to the' second power equals 225)
- x: "*[2]"
- pause: short
- test:
if: "$Impairment = 'Blindness'"
then:
- t: "エンド指数" # phrase(start 2 raised to the exponent 4 'end of exponent')
- t: "上付き終了" # phrase(start 2 raised to the exponent 4 'end of exponent')

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Emit the outer superscript terminator for all impairment modes.

At Line 255, $Impairment = 'Blindness' gates 上付き終了. In other modes, a nested exponent has no outer terminator. Emit 上付き終了 unconditionally, then keep only the pause duration conditional. Add a non-Blindness nested-exponent test.

Proposed fix
   - x: "*[2]"
-  - pause: short
-  - test:
-      if: "$Impairment = 'Blindness'"
-      then:
-      - t: "上付き終了"
-      - pause: short
-      else:
-      - pause: medium
+  - t: "上付き終了"
+  - test:
+      if: "$Impairment = 'Blindness'"
+      then: [pause: short]
+      else: [pause: medium]
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In `@Rules/Languages/ja/SimpleSpeak_Rules.yaml` around lines 251 - 257, Update the
superscript sequence after x: "*[2]" so 上付き終了 is emitted unconditionally for
every impairment mode; remove the blindness-only test around that terminator,
keep only the pause duration conditional, and add a nested-exponent test
covering a non-Blindness impairment.

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Checked against en before deciding.

"emit 上付き終了 unconditionally, not only under Blindness" — keeping the condition.

en's SimpleSpeak nested rule has exactly this shape: end exponent is emitted only when $Impairment = 'Blindness', and the other branch gets a longer pause instead (Rules/Languages/en/SimpleSpeak_Rules.yaml, the nested rule). So this is not something the Japanese seeding introduced, and changing it would make ja diverge from en for a reason that is not about Japanese.

It also happens to be the right split for Japanese specifically. The reference this PR follows defines two registers: 厳密読み上げ法, which declares every closing marker, and 簡略読み上げ法, which drops them for someone who can also see the print and only needs the reading as a check. $Impairment = 'Blindness' is exactly that distinction, so the conditional is doing the work the reference asks for.

I have asked in daisy#715 how the maintainers want 厳密/簡略 mapped onto MathCAT's existing axes (SimpleSpeak vs ClearSpeak, Verbosity, Impairment). If the answer is different from what the seeding already does, I will change both branches together rather than one rule here.

Coverage: added complex_exponent (b10dc29) for the 「の上付き … 上付き終了」 frame, which the default power rule emits unconditionally, so the frame itself is now pinned by a test.

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upstream に daisy#721 として提出したのでプリフライトは閉じます。

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