> The history of alphabetic numeration begins in Greece c600 BC, to be
> adopted by the Jews c200 BC. The books of Moses had been written many
> centuries before.
I thought the Greeks got their alphabet from Phoenician traders,
who were Hebraic people. How do we know the Phoenicians and their
semitic relatives didn't know the trick of using letters for numbers?
Is there a body of early Greek written material sufficient to show
that alphabetic numeration was not used prior to 600 BC?
-- Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com