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  2. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    An alphabetic numeral system employs the letters of a script in the specific order of the alphabet in order to express numerals. In Greek, letters are assigned to respective numbers in the following sets: 1 through 9, 10 through 90, 100 through 900, and so on. Decimal places are represented by a single symbol.

  3. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Using all numbers and all letters except I and O; the smallest base where ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ terminates and all of ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ to ⁠ 1 / 18 ⁠ have periods of 4 or shorter. 35: Covers the ten decimal digits and all letters of the English alphabet, apart from not distinguishing 0 from O. 36: Hexatrigesimal [55] [56]

  4. Letter (alphabet) - Wikipedia

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    Definition and usage. A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words.

  5. Mnemonic major system - Wikipedia

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    Numzi - free web application for converting numbers to words/phrases and vice versa using the Major System. Covers the English language with over 220,000 words. Numzi also has an iOS app which is a portable Major System number-word converter. 2Know is free Windows software for converting numbers to words (English, German, French).

  6. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    A writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. The earliest writing was invented during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history. each writing system invented without prior knowledge of writing gradually evolved from a system of proto-writing that ...

  7. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century.

  8. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phonemes in that and many other English words do not always correspond directly to the letters used to spell them (English orthography is not as strongly phonemic as that of many other languages). The number and distribution of phonemes in English vary from dialect to dialect, and also depend on the interpretation of the individual researcher.

  9. Number - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; سنڌي; Slovenčina ... a system that used combinations of letters from the Roman alphabet, ... many ordinal numbers correspond to the same cardinal ...