Greek numerals

Roman milestone with Roman numerals CCā††X (100+100+50+10); at bottom is its Greek equivalent, Ī£Īž (200+60); the stone marks 260 Roman miles from Philippi.

Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, is a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world. For ordinary cardinal numbers, however, modern Greece uses Arabic numerals.

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