From PeselyG@apsu.edu Sun Mar 3 16:42:31 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g240gSnJ157898 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 16:42:28 -0800 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Mar 03 16:42:27 2002 -0800 Received: from exchange.apsu.edu (exchange.apsu.edu [198.146.56.24]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g240gRIe016586 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 16:42:27 -0800 Received: by exchange.apsu.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 18:41:13 -0600 Message-ID: <8C1D549B4324D51181010090277A49DE163F26@exchange.apsu.edu> From: "Pesely, George" To: "'classics@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: Greek numerals Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 18:41:12 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C1C315.48C8C010" This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1C315.48C8C010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Oops...that should have been "koppa" for the letter following pi (qoph or koph is the Semitic prototype: cf. LXX Psalms 118:145). The Septuagint Psalms is a convenient place to find examples of this system in operation--for example, 133 = rho + lambda + gamma. George Pesely oude koppa gignOskOn -----Original Message----- From: Pesely, George [mailto:PeselyG@apsu.edu] Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 6:23 PM To: 'classics@u.washington.edu' Subject: RE: Greek numerals The system found in many manuscripts uses the first nine letters (with digamma after epsilon) to represent the numbers from one to nine, then the next nine letters (including Qoph following Pi) to represent the tens from 10 to 90, and the next nine letters (including sampi after omega) to represent the hundreds from 100 to 900. Up to 999 the numbers are represented with a stroke following which looks like an acute accent; to represent one thousand, you use alpha again but with a stroke below it to the left of the letter. George Pesely, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee peselyg@apsu.edu ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1C315.48C8C010 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Oops...that should have been "koppa" for the letter following pi (qoph or koph is the Semitic prototype:  cf. LXX Psalms 118:145).  The Septuagint Psalms is a convenient place to find examples of this system in operation--for example, 133 = rho + lambda + gamma.
 
George Pesely
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pesely, George [mailto:PeselyG@apsu.edu]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 6:23 PM
To: 'classics@u.washington.edu'
Subject: RE: Greek numerals
 
The system found in many manuscripts uses the first nine letters (with digamma after epsilon) to represent the numbers from one to nine, then the next nine letters (including Qoph following Pi) to represent the tens from 10 to 90, and the next nine letters (including sampi after omega) to represent the hundreds from 100 to 900.  Up to 999 the numbers are represented with a stroke following which looks like an acute accent; to represent one thousand, you use alpha again but with a stroke below it to the left of the letter.
 
George Pesely, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
 
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