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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 .
A famous example is 666 in the Biblical Book of Revelation (13:18): "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." The word rendered "count", ψηφισάτω, psephisato, has the same "pebble" root as the word isopsephy. [6] [7]
{{Greek numeral | 666}} returns ΧΞϚ´ For numbers greater than 9,999 the myriad notation is in use, e.g. {{Greek numeral | 10000}} returns . A comma (, - historically the lower keraia symbol ͵) before a letter denotes a thousandth (arithmetic value of the letter * 1000).
666 is a Smith number and Harshad number in base ten. [13] [14] The 27th indexed unique prime in decimal features a "666" in the middle of its sequence of digits. [15] [c] The Roman numeral for 666, DCLXVI, has exactly one occurrence of all symbols whose value is less than 1000 in decreasing order (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1 ...
Classical scholars agree that the Hebrew word gematria was derived from the Greek word γεωμετρία geōmetriā, "geometry", [7] though some scholars believe it to derive from Greek γραμματεια grammateia "knowledge of writing". [citation needed] It is likely that both Greek words had an influence on the formation of the Hebrew word.
Papyrus 115 (which is the oldest preserved manuscript of the Revelation as of 2017), as well as other ancient sources like Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, give the number of the beast as χιϛ or χιϲ, transliterable in Arabic numerals as 616 (χιϛ), not 666; [2] [3] critical editions of the Greek text, such as the Novum Testamentum Graece ...
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 ...
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 ...