IMIPOLEX

[Dave Monroe]

In Latin ...

http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe

I = 1

IM = 1000 - 1 = 999 (infrequent)

M = 1000

MI = 1000 + 1 = 1001

imus, ima, imum = inmost, deepest, bottommost, last;
(~ vox => highest treble); (inferus);

p = people, nation; abb. p. (p. R. => populus Romani);

polus, poli = pole (e.g., north pole), end of an axis;
heaven, sky, celestial vault;

polus, pola, polum  = little; small; (only a) small
amount/quantity of/little bit of;

o = Oh!;

oleo, olere, olui = smell of, smell like;

L = 50

lex, legis  = motion, bill, law, statute; principle;
condition;

e = ex = out of, from; by reason of; according to;
because of, as a result of;

X = 10

Most of which are suggestive, at least, to say the
least.  But note also ...

i = imaginary square root of -1

m = mass (say, of a satellite, or a projectile)

M = large, say planetary mass

MsubE (sorry, don't know how to subscript here) = the
mass of the Earth (read "em-ee")

p = momentum

o = 0, = omega = frequency

L = angular momentum

e = base of natural logarithm 

e was introduced, by the way, by Leonhard Euler in his
Meditatio in Experimenta explosione tormentorum nuper
instituta, Meditation on experiments made recently on
the firing of cannon (written ca. 1727-8, published
1862).  Euler also introduced i, and early on used p
instead of the Greek letter pi, see ...

http://members.aol.com/jeff570/constants.html

x = variable, = multiplication sign

Rene Descrates introduced the use of x as a variable
(La Geometrie [1637]), although there is apparently
some possible prehistory here, see ...

http://members.aol.com/jeff570/variables.html

cf. Constant Slothrop, Variable Slothrop (GR, p. 27)

g = gravitational pull of the earth

G = gravitational constant

Now if I could just decrypt some sort of sentence
and/or equation therein ...

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