After playing a few games of Balderdash the other night, I came across what I believe to be one of the coolest words I had ever encountered. As much as I enjoy math, I had never seen the word before and it became one of the running jokes for night.

The word is:

zenzizenzizenzic

The zenzizenzizenzic of a number is its eighth power. This term was suggested by Robert Recorde, a 16th century Welsh writer of popular mathematics textbooks, in his work The Whetstone of Witte, published in 1557, although his spelling was zenzizenzizenzike.

The word is obsolete except as a curiosity; the Oxford English Dictionary has only one citation for it. It survives as a historical oddity.

For more information, visit here.

I really wanted to acquire the domain, www.zenzizenzizenzic.com but it was already taken. Maybe I’ll scoop up the .us or .org sites.

So the next time you raise a number to the eight power, just remember, zenzizenzizenzic.

Click here zenzify your numbers. Note: large input values will not be “zenzified” (due to the limits of the unsigned integer).

Posted by Gaston under Flash, Games, Math
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