[ARC5] The BC-221 low frequency tank circuit puzzle.

Brian brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au
Sun Feb 14 22:15:17 EST 2016


Great find re Greek numbering, Richard. Antaxi. Many thanks.
In Roman (Latin) numbering, C is short for centum, which was 100.
73 de Brian, VK2GCE.

On Monday, February 15, 2016 9:13 AM, Richard said:

   These are derived from the roots of Greek numbers.  See 
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Greek_numbers.html

The letters used for Roman numerals do not appear to stand for anything. They may have been derived from hand (i.e. finger) counting.  


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