The phrase "a last element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the final item in a sequence or list.
Example: "In the series of steps, the last element is crucial for completing the process."
Alternatives: "the final element" or "the concluding element".
Every series of causes and effects must have at least three components: a first element, a middle element, and a last element.
Cantor defined them by means of two "generating principles": the first (1) yields the successor a+1 for any given number a, while the second (2) stipulates that there is a number b which follows immediately after any given sequence of numbers without a last element.
Here a is a substring that starting from the leftmost base of P and S a is the so-called projected database that contains all sequences that contain the substring a, where the last element of each occurrence of a is marked (the so-called a-locations).
"When the name of a place or an organization or a publication (or the last element of the name) is a plural form ending in S, such as the United States, even though the entity is singular," add the apostrophe alone, Chicago advises: the United States' role.
In March, researchers said they found what appeared to be a pregnant female iguana, the last element of a successful colonization of a new species, which made the observation of the rafting significant.
Whenever a sequence without last element appears, one can go on and, so to say, jump to a higher stage by (2).
Across the park, on the Madison Avenue side, is the last element, a series of static-filled recordings, supposedly of spirit voices, which connoisseurs of such things make available on the Web.
Some may find this last element a little black and white - but from the point of view of the exploited underclass in LA, that teeming capital of the third world, that's probably exactly how politics looks.
2) Partly consistent triplets were a combination of the last element of one triplet and the first two elements of the following triplet.
The first element in a trajectory was characterized by the first observation of polymorphism at a locus at which no trajectory was already in progress, while the last element of a trajectory was defined as the first observation at which the fixation or death of the polymorphism was observed.
