Quote Originally Posted by 'Knapenburger',index.php?page=Thread&postID=110427 #post110427
Is it Qunitboxing or Pentaboxing?

This is to put Griznah to shame that Penta represents a shape that covers an area - quint however is more of a simpler numeric form.

For example, "hexagon" is a six sided shape but you don't say "hexaboxing", it would be "sextaboxing" - Then you say "what about hexadecimal?" - well hexadecimal is a alpha-numeric value of base 16 which is totally irrelevant.

Also more evidence that Quint > Pent

You say "Quadboxing", not "Tetraboxing" or "Chaturboxing"

Take a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_prefix

Notice how by default we follow the Latin prefixes but people like Griznah decide they suddenly want to switch over to the more confusing Greek prefix.


So Griznah, STFU, I WIN, GTFO MY IRC.
You also say Tri-boxing, which according to the link you posted is Greek or Sanskrit. So obviously there's no hard rule for naming conventions.

Also it would be quinboxing, not quintboxing, since you usually keep the first syllable when using it to join words. I.e. quad-boxing, not quadr-boxing or tri-boxing, not trip-boxing.

Cheers,

S.