Talk:pentakismyriahexakisquilioletracosiohexacontapentágono

RFV discussion: June–July 2015
A Spanish word denoting a polygon with 56,645 sides. It seems only to occur in this list of Spanish tongue-twisters. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 07:23, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I've worked out most of the etymology; viz. that this word represents an Ancient Greek word of the form *, but what does the bit represent? — I.S.M.E.T.A. 08:36, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * So, this currently reads 56,?65-gon:
 * 50,000 (pentakismyria)
 * 6,000 (hexakisquilio)
 * ?00 (letracosio) - I think this is probably supposed to be tetracosio (τετρακόσια) giving 400
 * 60 hexaconta
 * 5 penta
 * Based on the apparent error in some of the other places, it seems like this may be a typo, though no form pentakismyriahexakisquiliotetracosiohexacontapentágono seems to exist. Also, this page is somewhat useful. — JohnC5 09:32, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Given the other examples on that page of English poorly converted to Spanish, I would guess the author found an English word in some list of long words and substituted in Spanish equivalents for a couple of the parts. The dead giveaway is the strange mixture of "ki" and "qui", which sound the same in Spanish, and which would normally never be in the same word. By that interpretation, the stray "l" is a scanno in the document they "borrowed" it from. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:36, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Good catch with ! Also, that Foundalis page you found is a gem; I love that Archimedes gave a name to 1080,000,000,000,000,000. :-)
 * Does this entry deserve the full month, or should we speedy it?
 * — I.S.M.E.T.A. 17:26, 30 June 2015 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 02:06, 28 July 2015 (UTC)