Jump the Curve Strategy #1: Learn to Spell Zenzizenzizenzic
It should be no surprise that both Google and Wikipedia, as exemplars of exponential growth themselves, have aided in the research of this book. (In 1998 Google’s search engines combed through 25 million Web pages. When this book went to print it was up to more than 25 billion Web pages, a thousandfold improvement, and the number of Wikipedia entries has increased from 100 in 2001 to more than 10 million today.)
To this end, I typed the term “exponential’ into Google, and the top entry I received back was from Wikipedia. After clicking on a related link called “list of exponential topics,” I stumbled upon a small entry at the bottom of one of the pages. It had the word zenzizenzizenzic listed.
Being curious, I decided to explore a little further. To my surprise, it brought up another Wikipedia entry. This one offered a definition of the word. Succinctly, zenzizenzizenzic is defined as the eighth power or exponent of a number. For instance, the zenzizenzizenzic of 2 is 256 or 28.
In addition to thinking it’s a cool, albeit weird, word, I realized that the concept of zenzizenzizenzic was precisely the parameter that I was hoping to put on this book.
Come with me now as we take a short walk into the future as viewed through the power of zenzizenzizenzic. (See tomorrow’s post for a number of different examples.)
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