Zenzizenzizenzic

Ah, I see someone has listened to "The Rest is Science" recently. Great podcast with Michael Stevens (VSauce) and Hannah Fry (the mathematician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw

Funny that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzic

redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power

I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.

Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?

I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.

Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.

Someone should make a language where every math formula is a word.

Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts

> dating from a time when powers were written out in words rather than as superscript numbers ... he wrote that it "doeth represent the square of squares squaredly".

This is a great example of why bad naming conventions are a "smell". It strongly implies that the solution does not yet fully understand the problem it's trying to solve.

nb: Robert Recorde also came up with the equals sign as two horizontal parallel lines "=". Yes, that one.

"bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle"

(and helped make + and - signs more popular)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde

see page 5:

https://sigapl.org/Articles/Language%20as%20an%20intellectua...

obligatory mention of Notation as a Tool of Thought

1979 Turing Award lecture by Ken Iverson

https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...

hemidemisemiquaver vibes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note

Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.

I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

That is actually pretty cool

Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!