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kai means "and" I guess like asking why 120 is said "one hundred and twenty" in some dialects. Maybe that's how 14 and 12 are written in Greek.
by normie3000 5mo ago
kai means "and"
I guess like asking why 120 is said "one hundred and twenty" in some dialects.
Maybe that's how 14 and 12 are written in Greek.
- frereubu 5mo agoAh I see, thanks!
- HighGoldstein 5mo agoThe Greek term would be decatetrahedron.
- normie3000 5mo agoApologies - Ancient Greek!
- adrian_b 5mo agoAncient Greeks did not say "dekatetra" for 14, i.e. ten-four, but as it is correctly written in TFA, they said "tetrakaideka" for 14, i.e. "four-and-ten", which is actually close to English "fourteen". For example, already Aristotle used "dipoda" (2-feet) for humans and birds, "tetrapoda" (4-feet) for other terrestrial vertebrates and "hexapoda" (6-feet) for insects. After the same model one can say "oktopoda" (8-feet) about spiders and "tetrakaidekapoda" (14-feet) about woodlice.