Timeline for Why did Cordwainer Smith name several characters "five-six" in different languages?
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| Apr 30 at 9:24 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | The Sanskrit is even closer than that: the root of ‘6’ is ṣaṣ or ṣāṣ, though ṣ is not allowed at the end of a word (I'll have to get out a book to confirm that the substitute consonant is ṭ). | |
| Nov 19, 2022 at 0:16 | vote | accept | Invisible Trihedron | ||
| Nov 18, 2022 at 15:11 | comment | added | John Doty | Don't know the answer, but I stole the idea and used it in my lab back in the 90's. I had a bunch of NeXT computers used for data acquisition via their 56001 DSPs. So, I worked "56" into their names: Isoroku, Femtiosex, Elvis, ... | |
| Nov 17, 2022 at 23:36 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 17, 2022 at 21:22 | history | edited | Buzz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2022 at 21:11 | answer | added | Buzz | timeline score: 44 | |
| Nov 17, 2022 at 18:21 | answer | added | jhgjgh | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 17, 2022 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1593302951484952577 | ||
| Nov 17, 2022 at 15:39 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | I wonder how tall he was... | |
| Nov 17, 2022 at 15:34 | history | asked | Invisible Trihedron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |