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hawkwings
Nice, but isn't that (literally speaking) two words?
And apropos of this entire next-to-last-or-not discussion, the problem is that the "end" is not quite the same as the "object at the end," and therein lies our pilpul. The same ambiguity is exploited in all kinds of trick problems, involving for instance how long it takes a clock to chime a certain sequence...
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