> 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.
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.
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.
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
Actually, its just one of the 170k English words we all totally already knew this morning.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586
Which was also heavily featured on the podcast mentioned.
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.
I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.
Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?
Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.
hemidemisemiquaver vibes
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.
Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...
I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.
> …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
Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.
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.
even if you just played the root zenzic would be great score, but again, the solitary z would make a wee bit difficult
With one Z tile and 2 blanks...
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.
Ah! Wrong on the internet! Oh no!
That is actually pretty cool
Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!
Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.)
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.