From fauber@uiuc.edu Sun Mar 3 17:15:30 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g241FSnJ018546 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:15:28 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Mar 03 17:15:27 2002 -0800 Received: from staff1.cso.uiuc.edu (staff1.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g241FRc6006763 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:15:27 -0800 Received: from [130.126.28.40] (castle-40.slip.uiuc.edu [130.126.28.40]) by staff1.cso.uiuc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g241FPq05750 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:15:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 19:12:01 -0600 Subject: Re: Roman Numerals...follow up question From: "Chad M. Fauber" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <003701c1c30e$370ad5e0$43c1578a@cas.ilstu.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3098027521_86738" > 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. --B_3098027521_86738 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable on 03.03.2002 17.50, janice siegel at jfsiege@ilstu.edu wrote: > My Greek language students asked me how the Greeks wrote their > numbers...clearly they didn't use Roman numerals...they didn't use Arabic > ones, right? So how did they do their math, with what kind of notation? I assume you have been referred to M. N. Tod=B9s Greek Numerals by now? Also, A. G. Woodhead has an appendix treating this as well in his The Study of Greek Inscriptions. Chad __________________________ Chad M. Fauber Visiting Lecturer Department of the Classics office: 4050 Foreign Languages Building mail: 4090 Foreign Languages Building University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA cmfauber@aol.com fauber@uiuc.edu http://www.classics.uiuc.edu/fauber/persona/ __________________________ --B_3098027521_86738 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Re: Roman Numerals...follow up question on 03.03.2002 17.50, janice siegel at jfsiege@ilstu.ed= u wrote:

My Greek language stud= ents asked me how the Greeks wrote their numbers...clearly they didn't use R= oman numerals...they didn't use Arabic ones, right? So how did they do their= math, with what kind of notation?

I assume you have been referred to  M. N. Tod’s Greek Numeral= s by now?  Also, A. G. Woodhead has an appendix treating this as we= ll in his The Study of Greek Inscriptions.

Chad
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