I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.
Funny that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzic" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzic</a><p>redirects to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power</a><p>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)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw</a>
> 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".<p>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...
> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.<p>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.
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
Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!