110 points · 32 comments · 14 hours ago · gyosifov
en.wikipedia.orgjzer0cool
marceldegraaf
culi
redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power
I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.
Jblx2
momoraul
gste
Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts
gre
sublinear
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.
tosh
"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...
not_a_bot_4sho
graypegg
…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
lbo462
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AStrangeMorrow