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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 4640837, member: 102103"]Update: I posted a summary of my notes with a few additions to my personal </p><p><a href="https://wp.me/pa8Nfq-7L" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wp.me/pa8Nfq-7L" rel="nofollow">coin blog</a>. Only a few additional details if you've already seen this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the weird Greek letters, apparently Greek numerals use 3 obsolete letters </p><p>to have enough to represent a 3 digit number: stigma (Ϛ), koppa (Ϙ) and sampi (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg/13px-Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>)</p><p>for 6, 90 and 900. Amharic only uses numbers up to 100, unlike Greek, so there</p><p>are no numerals for 200-900. But it does use the analogues of stigma and koppa</p><p>for 6 and 90.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1146875[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 4640837, member: 102103"]Update: I posted a summary of my notes with a few additions to my personal [URL='https://wp.me/pa8Nfq-7L']coin blog[/URL]. Only a few additional details if you've already seen this thread. As for the weird Greek letters, apparently Greek numerals use 3 obsolete letters to have enough to represent a 3 digit number: stigma (Ϛ), koppa (Ϙ) and sampi ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg'][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg/13px-Greek_Sampi_Ionian.svg.png[/IMG][/URL]) for 6, 90 and 900. Amharic only uses numbers up to 100, unlike Greek, so there are no numerals for 200-900. But it does use the analogues of stigma and koppa for 6 and 90. [ATTACH=full]1146875[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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