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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Roman numerals, in particular, are directly derived from the Etruscan number symbols: šŒ  , šŒ” , šŒ¢ , šŒ£ , and šŒŸ for 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100 (they had more symbols for larger numbers, but it is unknown which symbol represents which number). As in the basic Roman system, the Etruscans wrote the symbols that added to the desired ...

  3. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    A form of unary notation called Church encoding is used to represent numbers within lambda calculus. Some email spam filters tag messages with a number of asterisks in an e-mail header such as X-Spam-Bar or X-SPAM-LEVEL. The larger the number, the more likely the email is considered spam. 10: Bijective base-10: To avoid zero: 26: Bijective base-26

  4. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    The word order in the numerals from 21 to 99 may be inverted: ūnus et vīgintī. Numbers ending in 8 or 9 are usually named in subtractive manner: duodētrīgintā, ūndēquadrāgintā. Numbers may either precede or follow their noun (see Latin word order). Most numbers are invariable and do not change their endings:

  5. 148 (number) - Wikipedia

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    148 is the second number to be both a heptagonal number and a centered heptagonal number (the first is 1). [1] It is the twelfth member of the Mian–Chowla sequence, the lexicographically smallest sequence of distinct positive integers with distinct pairwise sums.

  6. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, several authors are of the view that the Roman numerals themselves were, for example, nothing less than abbreviations of the words for those numbers. Other examples of symbols still in some use are alchemical and zodiac symbols, which were, in any case, employed only in alchemy and astrology texts, which made their appearance ...

  7. 47 (number) - Wikipedia

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    47 (forty-seven) is the natural number following 46 and preceding 48. It is a prime number. It is the adopted favorite number of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Southern California, whose alumni have added cultural references to it in numerous places, including many Star Trek episodes.

  8. Latin letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    the digit "ten" in hexadecimal [2] and other positional numeral systems with a radix of 11 or greater [3] the unit ampere for electric current in physics [4] the area of a figure [5] the mass number or nucleon number of an element in chemistry [6] the Helmholtz free energy of a closed thermodynamic system of constant pressure and temperature [7]

  9. 147 (number) - Wikipedia

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    147 is the fourth centered icosahedral number. These are a class of figurate numbers that represent points in the shape of a regular icosahedron or alternatively points in the shape of a cuboctahedron, and are magic numbers for the face-centered cubic lattice. [1] Separately, it is also a magic number for the diamond cubic. [2]