I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.
Jblx2 6 hours ago [-]
I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.
momoraul 7 hours ago [-]
Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.
hun3 8 minutes ago [-]
[delayed]
jzer0cool 4 hours ago [-]
Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?
farmerbb 2 hours ago [-]
I understood that reference.
sublinear 8 hours ago [-]
> 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.
Well no, by the same logic it would be quaverquaverquaverquavic.
A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!
not_a_bot_4sho 8 hours ago [-]
Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...
dkarl 5 hours ago [-]
I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.
Waterluvian 43 minutes ago [-]
Kind of! It’s the official patented name for the formulation of the original Powerade. Back then it was known as PowerEight. The recipe hasn’t changed.
They take the finest electrolytes from whatever side of the salt flats we’re on, distil them twice, then thrice, then once again thrice more. They then rehydrate it, thus infusing it with the pure essence of hydration. They add red dye (for the flavour) and memories of cherry (for the colour) and bottle it. The bottles are then dozenized and loaded onto trucks to be immediately re-homed.
Learned about all this on late night deep delve Discovery Channel soirée… or maybe it was a fever dream (which has a fascinating origin story as well, but that’s for another time.)
graypegg 8 hours ago [-]
> …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
Sparkle-san 8 hours ago [-]
Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
gjm11 7 hours ago [-]
Also, a Scrabble board is 15 squares across and ZENZIZENZIZENZIC is 16 letters, so even with a Scrabble set with extra Zs or blanks you couldn't ever play it.
dylan604 7 hours ago [-]
even if you just played the root zenzic would be great score, but again, the solitary z would make a wee bit difficult
conradludgate 8 hours ago [-]
With one Z tile and 2 blanks...
darth_aardvark 7 hours ago [-]
In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.
graypegg 5 hours ago [-]
Ah! Wrong on the internet! Oh no!
lbo462 8 hours ago [-]
That is actually pretty cool
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AStrangeMorrow 8 hours ago [-]
Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!
marcusb 7 hours ago [-]
Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.)
AStrangeMorrow 3 hours ago [-]
Yes possible. But really that video of them features the word prominently (even on the thumbnail) AND that vocabulary estimation website. The video/podcast is just slightly over a week old.
Anyway doesn’t really matter, it was more to see if anyone else was a listener of that podcast.
epihelix 39 minutes ago [-]
Listened to, I assume you mean?
(Also, is it just me, or is anyone else mildly annoyed that the cleverly-titled "The rest is history" spawned a heap of meaningless "The rest is ..." siblings. Talk about letting the side down. I'm just waiting for Goal Hanger to recruit a pair of meditation gurus into their podcast stable, to make the "The rest is resting" ...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586
redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power
I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note
A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!
They take the finest electrolytes from whatever side of the salt flats we’re on, distil them twice, then thrice, then once again thrice more. They then rehydrate it, thus infusing it with the pure essence of hydration. They add red dye (for the flavour) and memories of cherry (for the colour) and bottle it. The bottles are then dozenized and loaded onto trucks to be immediately re-homed.
Learned about all this on late night deep delve Discovery Channel soirée… or maybe it was a fever dream (which has a fascinating origin story as well, but that’s for another time.)
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
Anyway doesn’t really matter, it was more to see if anyone else was a listener of that podcast.
(Also, is it just me, or is anyone else mildly annoyed that the cleverly-titled "The rest is history" spawned a heap of meaningless "The rest is ..." siblings. Talk about letting the side down. I'm just waiting for Goal Hanger to recruit a pair of meditation gurus into their podcast stable, to make the "The rest is resting" ...)