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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manny9655, post: 4718459, member: 112417&quot;]I never understood why we Greeks used the symbol &quot;stigma&quot; (a combination of the letters sigma and tau) for the number 6.&nbsp; By rights it should be zeta, the 6th letter.&nbsp; But that&#039;s the way it is.&nbsp; (Zeta = 7.) The Greeks still sometimes use letters for numbers, especially in the Greek Church and in reference to monarchs.&nbsp; Alpha = 1, beta =2, etc. up to omega = 800.&nbsp; There is a special symbol for 900 that is not in the alphabet.&nbsp; For 1000 and above, a comma is placed before the letter, for example; ,α = 1000, ,β = 2000, ,γ = 3000 and so on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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