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  2. Greek numerals - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 666 (number) - Wikipedia

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    Is the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel (0 through 36). [19] This is a corollary of the fact that the number is a Triangular number, as mentioned earlier. Was a winning lottery number in the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, in which equipment was tampered to favor a 4 or 6 as each of the three individual random digits. [21]

  5. Ancient Greek Numbers (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek Numbers is a Unicode block containing acrophonic numerals used in ancient Greece, ... This page was last edited on 26 July 2024, at 01:36 (UTC).

  6. Stigma (ligature) - Wikipedia

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    The name, stigma (στίγμα), is originally a common Greek noun meaning "a mark, dot, puncture", or generally "a sign", from the verb στίζω ("[I] puncture"); [1] the related but distinct word stigme (στιγμή) is the classical and post-classical word for "geometric point; punctuation mark". [2]

  7. Full moons of 2024: Dates and meaning of their names - AOL

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    Below is a list of the full moons in 2024, their dates, their names and why they were given that particular name, according to the Almanac: Wolf Moon on Jan. 25 Why this name: The howling of ...

  8. List of letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    Latin and Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities.

  9. Numerals '2024' arrive in Times Square in preparation for New ...

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    The numerals2024” were delivered Wednesday to Times Square for its famous street party to ring in the New Year. “Like every good Broadway show, we have dress rehearsals, so we want to get ...