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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 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 .
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 ...
{{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).
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.
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Using all numbers and all letters except I and O; the smallest base where 1 / 2 terminates and all of 1 / 2 to 1 / 18 have periods of 4 or shorter. 35 Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet, apart from not distinguishing 0 from O.
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 ...