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In classical architecture, the shape of the abacus and its edge profile varies in the different classical orders. In the Greek Doric order, the abacus is a plain square slab without mouldings, supported on an echinus. [2] In the Roman and Renaissance Doric orders, it is crowned by a moulding (known as "crown moulding").
Euclid's Elements (Ancient Greek) Compiled for anyone who would want to read the Euclid's work in Greek, especially in order to provide them a printer-friendly copy of the work. No hyperlink for Definitions, Postulates, Common Notions, Propositions, Corollaries, or Lemmas. Only the text and diagrams.
Abacus-based mental calculation (AMC), which was derived from the abacus, is the act of performing calculations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, in the mind by manipulating an imagined abacus. It is a high-level cognitive skill that runs calculations with an effective algorithm.
Tesserae of a mosaic of doves drinking at a golden basin, 1st century AD, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a square, used in creating a mosaic.
Five groups of markings appear on the tablet. The three sets of Greek symbols arranged along the left, right and bottom edges of the tablet are numbers from the acrophonic system. In the center of the tablet – a set of five parallel lines equally divided by a vertical line, capped with a semicircle at the intersection of the bottom-most ...
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Template documentation {{ Unicode chart Greek and Coptic }} provides a table listing the characters in the Greek and Coptic block of Unicode. For pages where the Coptic sub-block is being specifically referenced, these cells can be highlighted using an optional parameter.
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