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

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

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

Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts

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

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.

"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...

…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