Zenzizenzizenzic
（重定向自Zenzizenzic）
![Page from The Whetstone of Witte, 1557. Zenzizenzizenzike occurs at the top of the right hand page.](/Images/godic/202502/22/Whetstone-of-Witte-pp-150-1510237.jpg")
![Table of powers, symbols and names or descriptions form 0 to 24 by Samuel Jeake, written in 1671](/Images/godic/202502/22/Cossical_characters0237.png")
Zenzizenzizenzic is an obsolete form of mathematical notation representing the eighth power of a number (that is, the zenzizenzizenzic of a number x is the power x), dating from a time when powers were written out in words rather than as superscript numbers. This term was suggested by Robert Recorde, a 16th-century Welsh writer of popular mathematics textbooks, in his 1557 work The Whetstone of Witte (although his spelling was zenzizenzizenzike); he wrote that it "doeth represent the square of squares squaredly".