Large numbers in gothic

[halsteis at PVV.NTNU.NO]

Probably should not answer my self, but it don't seem my mail handeled
greek well.

(alpha)' meant 1, and ,(alpha)' meant 1000 etc.

1990 would in Greek be ,(alpha)(sampi)(mu)'. 2001 would be ,(beta)(alpha)'

Hower, it is what the Goths did I wonder about. Not that it was regulary
use for more than the low thousands.


Halstein.
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> 1a. Large numbers in gothic
>     Posted by: "halsteis at pvv.ntnu.no" halsteis at pvv.ntnu.no halsteis
>     Date: Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:30 am ((PDT))
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> Hi.
> Does anyone know how large numbers were represented in Gothic? With the
> alphabet, you get up to 999. The greek added a sign before the number to
> show thousands (α' menat 1, ,α' was 1000).
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> Halstein.
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> 1b. Re: Large numbers in gothic
>     Posted by: "anheropl0x" anheropl0x at yahoo.com anheropl0x
>     Date: Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:08 am ((PDT))
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> It probably isn't right, but I had always done math with the
> letters/numbers, example: 1990 = ^^Rµ, or 900+900+100+90.
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> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, halsteis at ... wrote:
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>> Hi.
>> Does anyone know how large numbers were represented in Gothic? With the
>> alphabet, you get up to 999. The greek added a sign before the number to
>> show thousands (α' menat 1, ,α' was 1000).
>>
>> Halstein.
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