- Location
- Switzerland
- Name
- Matt
- Start Date
- Feb 11, 2021
- End Date
- Feb 11, 2021
Today, we have a very "mathematical" number, so, here are a couple of ways of writing it:
2^8 - trivial and sober, though that also makes it
10000000 - in binary.
Way back when (in the 16th century), when mathematical notation was still young and approximative, there was a proposal to invent ways of expressing it with words instead of symbols, and hence, born was "zenzic", taken over from a Germanisation of Italian "censo" (actually meaning "squared") as an expression for, well, the square of a number. So, "zenzizenzic" was "the square of a square" (or "to the power of 4"), "zenzizenzizenzic" as "the square of a squared square" meant "to the 8th power".
Well ... so:
(2^2)^2)^2 = zenzizenzizenzic of 2 = 256 - the only three-digit result of such an expression.
Neat, even linguistically
Oh, and wait ... Why not use such a wonderfully useless fact for some random piece of art?
(The 16-backbeat is really, really pervasive ...)
M.
2^8 - trivial and sober, though that also makes it
10000000 - in binary.
Way back when (in the 16th century), when mathematical notation was still young and approximative, there was a proposal to invent ways of expressing it with words instead of symbols, and hence, born was "zenzic", taken over from a Germanisation of Italian "censo" (actually meaning "squared") as an expression for, well, the square of a number. So, "zenzizenzic" was "the square of a square" (or "to the power of 4"), "zenzizenzizenzic" as "the square of a squared square" meant "to the 8th power".
Well ... so:
(2^2)^2)^2 = zenzizenzizenzic of 2 = 256 - the only three-digit result of such an expression.
Neat, even linguistically
Oh, and wait ... Why not use such a wonderfully useless fact for some random piece of art?
(The 16-backbeat is really, really pervasive ...)
M.