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Procrastination Sport 3: Longest maths word

Post Icon Posted: Submitted by richardhp on 21 June 2008 - 10:15pm.

Joined: 2007-10-01
Posts: 170

The aim is to try to outdo the last word. Preferably by finding a similar word that is longer in some way. It goes without saying that words needn't be plausible. If you're really stuck as to how to beat a word, you can just think of a new one. Right, I'd better not start with too big a word, so that it can be beaten.

Pi

Post Icon Posted: 21 June 2008 - 10:28pm

Joined: 2008-06-15
Posts: 3

Oh, cute XD I used to play kinda like this game, but I'd type long words into google, and see if I got a hit... like googlewhack but a bit different XD

Psi

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Post Icon Posted: 21 June 2008 - 10:33pm

Joined: 2008-06-21
Posts: 27

Oh gosh, that's a good choice.

Post Icon Posted: 22 June 2008 - 3:55am

Joined: 2006-10-29
Posts: 9

ePSIlon

Post Icon Posted: 22 June 2008 - 10:03am

Joined: 2006-10-10
Posts: 519

EPSILONs

Post Icon Posted: 22 June 2008 - 10:57am

Joined: 2007-10-17
Posts: 109

Just in case anyone hasn't realised this, there are currently at least three fake versions of my account on the forums, and if neccesary you can tell them apart by the join dates and post counts. You'll notice that the above two posts were both made by different fake accounts. They are just making fun of me. Never mind, they haven't done anything hurtful yet and I'm supposed to be somewhere in five minutes. Well, have fun larking about guys.

Post Icon Posted: 22 June 2008 - 12:19pm

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Well, it's not hard to work out who some of them (originally) were.

erm...varepsilons ?

Post Icon Posted: 22 June 2008 - 2:48pm

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Posts: 104

varey big cylons.

Post Icon Posted: 22 June 2008 - 3:27pm

Joined: 2006-11-02
Posts: 1019

vaery big anticyclones

Post Icon Posted: 26 June 2008 - 10:45am

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Posts: 170

new one: euler

Post Icon Posted: 7 July 2008 - 1:11pm

Joined: 2007-03-03
Posts: 129

in a similar manner to "antidisestablishmentarianism", I wonder what can be done with prefixes, hyphens, etc. Take "non-well-definedness", for example.