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Ancient Greek Numbers is a Unicode block containing acrophonic [https://unicode-table.com/en/numerals/ numerals] used in ancient Greece.
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Attic numerals were used by the ancient Greeks, possibly from the 7th century BC. They were also known as Herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd-century [https://unicode-table.com/en/1F4DC/ manuscript] by Herodian. They are also known as acrophonic numerals because the symbols derive from the first letters of the words that the symbols represent: five, ten, [https://unicode-table.com/en/1F4AF/ hundred], thousand and ten thousand. See Greek numerals and acrophony, click the numbers to find out their English names. |