| ▲ | Zenzizenzizenzic(en.wikipedia.org) |
| 118 points by gyosifov a day ago | 34 comments |
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| ▲ | jzer0cool a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise? |
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| ▲ | marceldegraaf a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | culi a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | Jblx2 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song. |
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| ▲ | momoraul a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit. |
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| ▲ | gre a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| hemidemisemiquaver vibes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note |
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| ▲ | epihelix a day ago | parent [-] | | 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! | | |
| ▲ | dhosek a day ago | parent [-] | | Fractions are art and man, music relies so much on fractions. |
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| ▲ | gste a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Someone should make a language where every math formula is a word. Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts |
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| ▲ | graypegg a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > …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 |
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| ▲ | Sparkle-san a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's. | | |
| ▲ | gjm11 a day ago | parent [-] | | 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 a day ago | parent [-] | | even if you just played the root zenzic would be great score, but again, the solitary z would make a wee bit difficult |
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| ▲ | darth_aardvark a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | | | |
| ▲ | conradludgate a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | With one Z tile and 2 blanks... | |
| ▲ | binary132 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is exactly what first came to my mind as well. Pretty funny scenario to imagine |
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| ▲ | not_a_bot_4sho a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did... |
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| ▲ | dkarl a day ago | parent [-] | | I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name. | | |
| ▲ | Waterluvian a day ago | parent [-] | | 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.) |
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| ▲ | tosh a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| nb: Robert Recorde also came up with the equals sign as two horizontal parallel lines "=". Yes, that one. "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... |
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| ▲ | sublinear a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > 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. |
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| ▲ | lbo462 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That is actually pretty cool |
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| ▲ | AStrangeMorrow a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine! |
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| ▲ | marcusb a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.) | | |
| ▲ | AStrangeMorrow a day ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | epihelix a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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" ...) |
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