02-02-2006, 05:49 PM
Call me out-dated, but I've just made a surprising independant discovery: I know why the Pentium is called the Pentium. Does anyone else?
>anarky
>anarky
02-02-2006, 05:49 PM
02-02-2006, 05:58 PM
Pentium comes from Pentas which is greek for 5...
Intel 80586.
They went haywire afterwards. They kept the Pentium shit even for the '686.
Intel 80586.
They went haywire afterwards. They kept the Pentium shit even for the '686.
02-02-2006, 06:03 PM
Actually I had a different but similar answer. Go back in time further, the Latin word for 5 was Pentium. This I know because I wasted an hour updating my brain on the periodical table of elements. Proposed element 115-Ununpentium's name come directly from the Latin words for 1 and 5. 1-1-5 = Ununpentium.
Well that's what Wikipedia reckons.
There's no doubt in my mind that your answer is also correct, since Greek was derived mainly from Latin anyway.
>anarky
Well that's what Wikipedia reckons.
There's no doubt in my mind that your answer is also correct, since Greek was derived mainly from Latin anyway.
>anarky
02-02-2006, 08:28 PM
Not exactly. Latin owes some stuff from ancient greek, but there's no derivation. The glyphs, and many words, but nothing about language structure.
There's more funny pedantic stuff around, for example take the word "hexadecimal". "Hexa" comes from greek and means 6, and "decimal" comes from Latin and means 10. It's so odd to mix latin and greek roots in the same word. This is odd 'cause to form numerals you always use latin, as opposed to greek used in geometry. It should be sexdecimal... But I guess they wanted to diss the "sexual" connotations :lol:
Another funny numeral is "zenzic", which comes from greek and I don't know if you use. Zenzic means power of two. Funny thing is that you can combine zenzics to raise the power, i.e. zenzizenzizenzic is ^8. So you could say:
:lol:
EDITED LATER: Nice, you English speakers also use that world: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-zen1.htm
There's more funny pedantic stuff around, for example take the word "hexadecimal". "Hexa" comes from greek and means 6, and "decimal" comes from Latin and means 10. It's so odd to mix latin and greek roots in the same word. This is odd 'cause to form numerals you always use latin, as opposed to greek used in geometry. It should be sexdecimal... But I guess they wanted to diss the "sexual" connotations :lol:
Another funny numeral is "zenzic", which comes from greek and I don't know if you use. Zenzic means power of two. Funny thing is that you can combine zenzics to raise the power, i.e. zenzizenzizenzic is ^8. So you could say:
Quote:The zenzizenzizenzic of 2 is 256
:lol:
EDITED LATER: Nice, you English speakers also use that world: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-zen1.htm
02-02-2006, 09:15 PM
That's an interesting site. 
>anarky
>anarky
02-03-2006, 01:22 AM
Roman (i.e.: in Latin) number system 1-10: unus, duo, tres, quattuor, qinque, sex, septem, octo, novem, decem.
French number system 1-10: un, duex, trois, quattre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix.
Greek number system 1-10: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, stigma, zeta, eta, theta.
Early Greek number system: pente (5), deka (10), hekaton (100), khilioi (1000), murioi (10000) [ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~hist...mbers.html ]
French number system 1-10: un, duex, trois, quattre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix.
Greek number system 1-10: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, stigma, zeta, eta, theta.
Early Greek number system: pente (5), deka (10), hekaton (100), khilioi (1000), murioi (10000) [ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~hist...mbers.html ]
02-03-2006, 01:27 AM
All i know is the romans nearly made math impossible.
Who here can divide to roman numbers together without conversion?
What is XXI / XIXIV ?
Who here can divide to roman numbers together without conversion?
What is XXI / XIXIV ?
02-03-2006, 01:58 AM
"Pentium" comes from 5, but the real reason for the name is because you can't trademark a number, and Intel wanted to protect itself from "clones." That's also why CPUs today all have weird names instead of following a nice numbering system.
02-03-2006, 02:47 AM
Quote:Roman (i.e.: in Latin) number system 1-10: unus, duo, tres, quattuor, qinque, sex, septem, octo, novem, decem.
French number system 1-10: un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix.
Greek number system 1-10: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, sigma, zeta, eta, theta.
Early Greek number system: pente (5), deka (10), hekaton (100), khilioi (1000), murioi (10000) [ http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~hist...mbers.html ]
02-03-2006, 08:23 AM
Quote:.....Aga, actually your Greek numbers are Greek letters.
Greek number system 1-10: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, stigma, zeta, eta, theta.
Early Greek number system: pente (5), deka (10), hekaton (100), khilioi (1000), murioi (10000).....
The Greek numbers 1-10, in phonetic modern Greek are:
ena, thio, tria, tercera, pende, exi, epta, octo, enea, deca.
The largest number that the Greeks have is 10,000 pronounced miria, with an accent on the first i. In English, there's a derivated word "myriad" which generally means many. The Greek word for a million is ecto-miria. Ecato (phonetic) means 100, so 100 times 10,000 is a million.
More Greek trivia: Where does the word alphabet come from? Well, in many languages it is just the first 2 letters of the Greek alphabet ... alfa-beta. These 2 words were taken by different languages and changed a bit to fit their particular language.
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