> 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.
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.
Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.
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
> 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...
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.)
> …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.
That is actually pretty cool