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Essay heading: Greek numbers
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The first Greek number system examined was their acrophonic system which was use in the first millennium BC. Acrophonic actually means that the symbols for the numerals come from the first letter of the number name, so the symbol has come from an abreviation of the word. For 5, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 there will be only one puzzle for the reader and that is the symbol for 5 which should be P if it was the first letter of Pente... displayed 300 characters
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The first Greek number system examined was their acrophonic system which was use in the first millennium BC. Acrophonic actually means that the symbols for the numerals come from the first letter of the number name, so the symbol has come from an abreviation of the word. For 5, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 there will be only one puzzle for the reader and that is the symbol for 5 which should be P if it was the first letter of Pente... displayed next 300 characters
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