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<p>[QUOTE="Paul M., post: 2404895, member: 73165"]I don't really have any actual info to add, but I would like to say "great writeup," [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>Random tidbit: for giggles, I pasted KHPIΛICωΔEΠPOCΠAΛVPIN into Google Translate. It thought it was Slovenian, but couldn't give me a translation. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Random musings: the word "tessera" in English refers to a tile used in creating a mosaic. Related is the word "tesselation," which refers to a tiling pattern. According to <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tessara-" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tessara-" rel="nofollow">wikitionary.org</a>, the root "tessera-" refers to the neuter, plural combining form of "τέσσᾰρες," meaning "four." Also related is the word "tesseract," which is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube (sometimes also referred to as a hypercube).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Paul M., post: 2404895, member: 73165"]I don't really have any actual info to add, but I would like to say "great writeup," [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]. Random tidbit: for giggles, I pasted KHPIΛICωΔEΠPOCΠAΛVPIN into Google Translate. It thought it was Slovenian, but couldn't give me a translation. :p Random musings: the word "tessera" in English refers to a tile used in creating a mosaic. Related is the word "tesselation," which refers to a tiling pattern. According to [URL='https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tessara-']wikitionary.org[/URL], the root "tessera-" refers to the neuter, plural combining form of "τέσσᾰρες," meaning "four." Also related is the word "tesseract," which is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube (sometimes also referred to as a hypercube).[/QUOTE]
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