by jzer0cool
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- Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?
by marceldegraaf
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- 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
- 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.
- I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.
- > 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.
- Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.
- hemidemisemiquaver vibes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note
- Someone should make a language where every math formula is a word.
Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts
- > …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
by not_a_bot_4sho
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- Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...
- 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...
- That is actually pretty cool
by AStrangeMorrow
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- Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!
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