Greek numerals

Greek numerals are a system of representing numbers using letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece, they are still in use for ordinal numbers, and in much the same situations as Roman numerals are in the West; for ordinary numbers, Arabic numerals are used.

Higher numbers

The Greeks also used the Myriad to denote 10,000 and the myriad myriad for one hundred million. In his text The Sand Reckoner the natural philosopher Archimedes proposed advanced ways to name very high numbers, such as the number of grains of sand on a beach, and the number of grains of sand on all the beaches on all the worlds in the universe.

Related Topics:
Myriad - The Sand Reckoner - Archimedes

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