You had the right title, it’s just that it’s not a Reopt.
Ah. Thanks, we’ll get it fixed. Editor musta been on a drunken binge that day.
Man, I hate it when that happens.
You were probably influenced by the letter writer, who was “was assined a reopt on numerology”.
In that case, leave it. Either it’s a good joke that I missed, or it’s an accident that looks like a good joke.
Yes, I now discover that apparently it was inserted by the Ed Zotti, who edits these things. I didn’t catch it. It wasn’t a joke I’da made. Thus, it stays.
I like the joke; although, I didn’t notice it in the staff reopt <sic> I raed, and I would not likely have inserted the same joke.
That said, I am hoping this is not considered a hijack of the thread, since it is on the same topic of numerology and said staff report.
The following is a quote from the report:
<<The ancient Greek alphabet had 27 letters, but there were no separate symbols for numbers.>>
Perhaps I am a slow study, but the Greek alphabet I am familiar with has only 24 letters. I know this all too intimately from being able to recite the entire alphabet with a lit match burning BELOW my fingers as I recited it during my fraternity days over a decade ago. Am I simply not educated <certainly within the realm of possibility! >> in the “ancient Greek alphabet” that had 27 letters?
Yup.
In the earliest form of the alphabet, there were three more letters.[ol]
[li]“Wau”, later known as “digamma”, the descendant of Semitic “waw” and the ancestor of “F”.[/li][li]“Qoppa”, the descendant of Semitic “qoph” and the ancestor of “Q”.[/li][li]“San”, the descendant of Semitic “Tsade”, which did not descend to Latin.[/li][/ol]“Wau” and “Qoppa” continued in use as the Greek numerals for “6” and “90”. “San” dropped out completely, and a new 27th letter was invented, named “sampi” or “sanpi”, also known as “disigma”, as the numeral for “900”. The connection between “san” and “sampi” is uncertain.
JWK: Thanks for the information and education!