Talk:terated

RFV discussion: March–April 2023
I can find no examples of this word, which was added by, just scannos of the last part of adulterated, obliterated, etc. The usex also includes the word "hecatonicosoctaexon", which also does not seem to exist. Kiwima (talk) 23:35, 1 March 2023 (UTC)


 * The usex was added by with the comment that it's from Wikipedia, and searching there I found it at . A bit of further research reveals that it (along with hecatonicosoctaexon) is part of a systematic naming scheme developed by the amateur mathematician Jonathan Bowers, and at this wiki we find "terated" as an adjective describing a six-dimensional polytope derived by a certain kind of operation. The details of these operations are beyond me but I don't think this word is used outside the community of online polytope afficionados, who are apparently a thing. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 00:26, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * We will never be as cool as an "online polytope aficionado". I hate to get all up in Graeme's grill but he does sometimes seem more keen to fix the red link than to check that it's really a legit word with widespread use. Equinox ◑ 10:45, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Fun fact: I added two pages to the polytope wiki, a long time ago. It wasn't some six-dimensional monster, though—I created Circle and Sphere (which aren't even polytopes. hasn't been deleted tho) Ioaxxere (talk) 15:22, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I can't even figure out what it is supposed to mean. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:32, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

RFV-failed, all sorts of typos and scannos out there, but nothing useful. This, that and the other (talk) 23:43, 4 April 2023 (UTC)