From blais@emx.cc.utexas.edu Tue Feb 9 09:49:03 1993 Received: from rodan.UU.NET by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA06568; Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:49:03 EST Received: from relay2.UU.NET by rodan.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-mail-drop) id AA28418; Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:49:01 -0500 Received: from emx.cc.utexas.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04627; Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:49:03 -0500 Posted-Date: 9 Feb 1993 08:27:50 -0600 Received: by emx.cc.utexas.edu (5.61/1.11) id AA12597; Tue, 9 Feb 93 08:27:57 -0600 To: soc-religion-christian@uunet.uu.net Path: emx.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: blais@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Donald E. Blais) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: count the number of a name ?? Date: 9 Feb 1993 08:27:50 -0600 Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 48 Message-Id: <1l8f16INNdmm@emx.cc.utexas.edu> References: In article cvaitsos@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Constantin Vaitsos) writes: >Can someone post a comprehensive way on how to count in both greek and latin, Some common traditional systems of enumeration... Latin Greek Hebrew Arabic (East) Arabic (West) 1 a a ' ' ' 2 b b b b b 3 c g g j j 4 d d d d d 5 e e h h h 6 f [digamma] w w w 7 g z z z z 8 h E H H H 9 i,j th T T T 10 k i y y y 20 l k k k k 30 m l l l l 40 n m m m m 50 o n n n n 60 p x s s S 70 q o ` ` ` 80 r p p f f 90 s [san] S S D 100 t [koppa] q q q 200 u,v,w r r r r 300 x s sh sh s 400 y t t t t 500 z y *k th th 600 ph *m kh kh 700 kh *n dh dh 800 ps *p D Z 900 O *S Z gh 1000 *s gh sh Latin: Order used in Middle Ages and during Renaissance. Greek: [Obsolete] letters may be dropped or relocated. Hebrew: *Word-final letters not used in common enumeration. Arabic: Enumeration order shown. Alphabetic order differs. -- Donald E. Blais Internet: blais@utexas.edu Computation Center Bitnet: blais@utxvms University of Texas UUCP: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!blais Austin, TX 78712 Phone: +1 512-471-6387 +1 512-471-3241