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(with a period) before the local word for "century" (e.g. Turkish 18. yüzyıl, Czech 18. století). Boris Yeltsin's signature, dated 10 November 1988, rendered as 10. XI.'88. Mixed Roman and Arabic numerals are sometimes used in numeric representations of dates (especially in formal letters and official documents, but also on tombstones).
In Pinyin alphabetical order, where words have the same basic letters in pinyin and differ only in modifying diacritics, the unmodified letter comes before the modified letter. For example, e comes before ê (額 (è) before 欸 (ê̄)), and u comes before and ü (路 (lù) before 驢 (lǘ) and 努 (nǔ) before 女 (nǚ)).
The Latin numerals are the words used to denote numbers within the Latin language. They are essentially based on their Proto-Indo-European ancestors, and the Latin cardinal numbers are largely sustained in the Romance languages.
English eight, from Old English eahta, æhta, Proto-Germanic *ahto is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓ(w)-, and as such cognate with Greek ὀκτώ and Latin octo-, both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary.
The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study.
The alphabetical order used by Wikipedia is based on the Unicode order and corresponds to American Standard Code for Information Interchange.. Blank spaces between words in a page name are treated as an underscore "_", and are therefore ordered after upper case letters and before lower case letters.
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Cardinal numbers tend to come before the noun in Cicero (90% of examples), but in Caesar only 54% come before the noun. [52] When following the noun, the numeral is often focussed, as in the following, where the important information is in the number "three": Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partīs trīs. [190] "Gaul is divided into three parts."