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Greek numerals in a c. 1100 Byzantine manuscript of Hero of Alexandria's Metrika. The first line contains the number "͵θϡϟϛ δʹ ϛʹ", i.e. "9,996 + 1 ⁄ 4 + 1 ⁄ 6". It features each of the special numeral symbols sampi (ϡ), koppa (ϟ), and stigma (ϛ) in their minuscule forms. Greek numerals are decimal, based on powers of 10
In Greek, each unit (1, 2, ..., 9) was assigned a separate letter, each tens (10, 20, ..., 90) a separate letter, and each hundreds (100, 200, ..., 900) a separate letter. This requires 27 letters, so the 24-letter alphabet was extended by using three obsolete letters: digamma ϝ (also used are stigma ϛ or, in modern Greek, στ ) for 6, qoppa ...
Greek numbers may refer to: Greek numerals , the system of representing numbers using letters of the Greek alphabet Greek numbers, the names and symbols for the numbers 0–10 in the list of numbers in various languages
Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers. In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: simplex, duplex (communication in only 1 direction at a time, in 2 directions simultaneously)
The Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek [1] (Greek: Λεξικό της κοινής Νεοελληνικής) is a monolingual dictionary of Modern Greek published by the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation) [2] (named after Manolis Triantafyllidis), at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1998.
It allows study of both Hebrew- and Greek-based scriptural texts in the same language, and a student may follow the association of a word from either the New Testament to the Old Testament or vice versa. The trilinear format has the AB-Strong numbers on the top line, the Greek text on the middle line, and the English translation on the bottom line.
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Theta (UK: / ˈ θ iː t ə /, US: / ˈ θ eɪ t ə /) uppercase Θ or ϴ; lowercase θ [note 1] or ϑ; Ancient Greek: θῆτα thē̂ta [tʰɛ̂ːta]; Modern: θήτα thī́ta) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 9.