Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Ancient Greek Number system

Greek Numerals

Greek Numeral

The Greek
number system
is similar to the
Egyptian number system because the numerals were repeated when needed and the system was non positional, though it was a bit more sophisticated.  The Greek system on enumeration was alphabetical and required more than 27different symbols.


The thousands, 1000 to 9000, were represented by placing an apostrophe before a unit.

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