Etymology

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Today it means: The sixteenth power of a number. Full definition →

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The story

An extension of Robert Recorde's naming system for mathematical powers presented in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.