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Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, is a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece , they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world .
In Latin and Greek, the ordinal forms are also used for fractions for amounts higher than 2; only the fraction 1 / 2 has special forms. The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary.
Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet, apart from not distinguishing 0 from O. 36: Hexatrigesimal [57] [58] Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet. 37: Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the Spanish alphabet. 38: Covers the duodecimal digits and all letters of the ...
The OpenType font format has the feature tag "mgrk" ("Mathematical Greek") to identify a glyph as representing a Greek letter to be used in mathematical (as opposed to Greek language) contexts. The table below shows a comparison of Greek letters rendered in TeX and HTML. The font used in the TeX rendering is an italic style.
In Greek, letters are assigned to respective numbers in the following sets: 1 through 9, 10 through 90, 100 through 900, and so on. Decimal places are represented by a single symbol. As the alphabet ends, higher numbers are represented with various multiplicative methods.
One millionth is equal to 0.000 001, or 1 x 10 −6 in scientific notation. It is the reciprocal of a million, and can be also written as 1 ⁄ 1,000,000. [1] Units using this fraction can be indicated using the prefix "micro-" from Greek, meaning "small". [2] Numbers of this quantity are expressed in terms of μ (the Greek letter mu). [3]
Historians have discovered that an ancient Greek inscription on a marble slab in a museum collection is a rare, previously unknown “graduate school yearbook” type list of names.
Table of correspondences from Carl Faulmann's Das Buch der Schrift (1880), showing glyph variants for Phoenician letters and numbers. In numerology, gematria (/ ɡ ə ˈ m eɪ t r i ə /; Hebrew: גמטריא or גימטריה, gimatria, plural גמטראות or גימטריות, gimatriot) [1] is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase by reading it as a number ...