Assertion: latin alphabet's letter | /r/CapableOf | represent number
Facets:
value: from 1
type: OTHER
value: in the classical ionian system
type: LOCATION
value: from 1,000
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: To represent numbers from 1,000 to 999,999 the same letters are reused to serve as thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands.
text: In the classical Ionian system, the first nine letters of the alphabet stood for the numbers from 1 to 9, the next nine letters stood for the multiples of 10, from 10 to 90, and the next nine letters stood for the multiples of 100, from 100 to 900.
text: Therefore, qoppa was transformed into two letters: qoppa, which stood for the number 90, and phi (Φ), which stood for the aspirated sound /pʰ/ that came to be pronounced /f/ in Modern Greek.