What is Zenzizenzizenzic?
{{no footnotes|date=August 2023}} '''Zenzizenzizenzic''' is the eighth [[Exponentiation|power]] of a number. [[Robert Recorde]] in ''[[The Whetstone of Witte]]'', published in 1557. Although his spelling had the last letter of the word as k. This word is not used any more in math except as a curiosity. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] has only one citation for it. It survives because it is unusual. The root word, is the [[Italian language|Italian]] ''censo'', meaning squared. Zenzizenzizenzic is from a time when there was no easy way of writing the powers of numbers except as squares and cubes. The fourth power was represented by the square of a square. '''Zenzizenzic''' is a condensed form of the Italian censo di censo, used by [[Fibonacci|Leonardo of Pisa]] in his famous book ''[[Liber Abaci]]'' of 1202. The eighth power is by extension zenzizenzizenzic. Similarly the sixth power would be '''zenzicube''', the square of a cube. Zenzizenzizenzic has more Z's than any other word in English. ==References== *{{citation|last=Hebra |first= Alexius J. |title=Measure for Measure: The Story of Imperial, Metric, and Other Units|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |year=2003|isbn=978-0-8018-7072-9}}. *{{citation|last=Knight |first=Charles |title=The English Cyclopaedia|publisher=Bradbury, Evans |year=1868|pages=1045|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjElAAAAMAAJ&dq=Zenzizenzizenzic&pg=RA4-PA1047}}. *{{citation|last=Reilly|first=Edwin D.|title=Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2003 |pages=3|isbn=978-1-57356-521-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTYPKxug49IC&dq=Zenzizenzizenzic&pg=PA3}}. *{{citation|last=Todd|first=Richard Watson |title=Much Ado About English|publisher=Nicholas Brealey Publishing |year=2006|isbn=978-1-85788-372-5}}. *{{citation|last=Uldrich |first= Jack |title=Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies|chapter=Chapter 2. The Power of Zenzizenzizenzic|publisher=Ad