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Zenzizenzizenzic

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Jeake's text appears to designate a written exponent of 0 as being equal to an "absolute number, as if it had no Mark", thus using the notation x to refer to an independent term of a polynomial, while a written exponent of 1, in his text, denotes "the Root of any number" (using
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denotes the square of the square of a number's square, which is its eighth power: in modern notation,
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number, i.e. its first power x, as demonstrated in the examples provided in the book).
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of numbers other than squares and cubes. The root word for Recorde's notation is
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At the time Recorde proposed this notation, there was no easy way of denoting the
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Recorde proposed three mathematical terms by which any power (that is, index or
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The word, as well as the system, is obsolete except as a curiosity; the
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Quinion, Michael, "Zenzizenzizenzic - the eighth power of a number",
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Obsolete mathematical term representing the eighth power of a number
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Table of powers, symbols and names or descriptions from 0 to 24 by
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A Zenzizenzizenzizenzike or square of squares squaredly squared
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Therefore, a number raised to the power of six would be
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Index

mathematical notation
eighth power
Robert Recorde
Welsh
mathematics
The Whetstone of Witte

powers
German
medieval Italian
Samuel Jeake
Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed
Samuel Jeake
Oxford English Dictionary
Zs
exponent
sursolid

Samuel Jeake
World Wide Words
Samuel Jeake
Samuel Jeake the Younger
A Compleat Body of Arithmetick
The English Cyclopaedia
Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology
ISBN
978-1-57356-521-9
Reilly 2003
Numerical Adjectives, Greek and Latin Number Prefixes
Prime factor exponent notation

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