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"mono-" is from Greek monos = "alone". "un" = 1 and "nona-" = 9 are from Latin. The others are derived from Greek numbers. The forms 100 and upwards are not correct Greek. In Ancient Greek, hekaton = 100, diakosioi = 200, triakosioi = 300, etc. The numbers 200-900 would be confused easily with 22 to 29 if they were used in chemistry.
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. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent- , from the original Latin, and those in -cent- , derived from centi- , etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .
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 .
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
Greek numerals in a c. 1100 Byzantine manuscript of Hero of Alexandria's Metrika. The first line contains the number " ͵θϡϟϛ δ´ ϛ´ ", i.e. " 9996 + 1 ⁄ 4 + 1 ⁄ 6 ". It features unit fractions and each of the special numeral symbols sampi (ϡ), koppa (ϟ), and stigma (ϛ) in their minuscule forms.
The Attic numerals are a symbolic number notation used by the ancient Greeks. They were also known as Herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd-century manuscript by Herodian ; or as acrophonic numerals (from acrophony ) because the basic symbols derive from the first letters of the (ancient) Greek words that the symbols ...
These are the only numbers with numerical prefixes. Georgia guy 18:51, 19 February 2015 (UTC) In principle you could derive Greek prefixes for a few higher powers of ten, i.e. 10 5 decakismyria-, 10 6 hecatontakismyria-, 10 7 chiliakismyria-, and 10 8 myriakismyria-, as these numbers appear
Ancient Greek Numbers Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ...