zenzizenzizenzizenzike

noun

The sixteenth power of a number.

Scrabble 98

Meanings

nounzenzizenzizenzizenzike (plural not attested)

alternative zenzizenzizenzizenzic

  1. no pluralobsoletemathematicsThe sixteenth power of a number.

    A Zenzizenzizenzizenzike or Square of Squares Squaredly Squared

    1696, Samuel Jeake, chapter 4, in Arithmetic surveyed or reviewed, volume 3, page 272; 'A compleat body of arithmetic, in four books...' 1701

Origin

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.

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