Wordie: Zenzizenzizenzic
“The word is obsolete except as a c…
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Wordie: Zenzizenzizenzic
“The word is obsolete except as a curiosity; the Oxford English Dictionary has only one citation for it. It survives as an historical oddity.The word dates from a time when there was no easy way of denoting the powers of numbers other than squares and cubes. Its root word is the German zenzic, from the medieval Italian censo, meaning “squared.” Since the square of a square of a number is its fourth power, Recorde used the word zenzizenzic (spelt by him as zenzizenzike) t
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