Those are just the first 20 letters (of 24) of the Greek alphabet.
Tom Send a noteboard - 10/03/2013 06:57:46 PM
A capital eta is H. There is no omega on them as the alphabet stops at Y (upsilon), or the 20th letter.
The so-called "Roman" version still used Greek, so I'm guessing it was a tool for the study of geometry.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
It's the Zany Popetastic Sede Vacante Supergame!
- 07/03/2013 06:00:53 PM
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Paul David Hewson, 1 April, Pope Bono I
- 07/03/2013 09:54:50 PM
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Take your fake answer elsewhere if you're not going to play seriously. *NM*
- 07/03/2013 11:48:57 PM
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*is chastened* That was the only remotely possible answer I could come up with w/o research. *MN*
- 08/03/2013 04:13:44 AM
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So go do the research! It can't take as long to perform as one of your standard diatribes... *NM*
- 08/03/2013 09:29:57 PM
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Tomorrow; I am running on fumes and trying to tell Demotic from demotic at the moment.
- 08/03/2013 10:03:52 PM
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Still, it only takes surfing quickly through 1-3 articles at most
- 08/03/2013 10:48:17 PM
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Johnny was married FOUR times: I doubt he was Roman Catholic (the internet claims Methodist.) 
- 09/03/2013 07:32:06 PM
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Demotic is a Greek term, so capitalizing it or not really doesn't change anything.
- 09/03/2013 03:13:17 PM
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Ah, I did not realize the Greek term was reserved for modern Greek; thanks.
- 09/03/2013 07:11:16 PM
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Greek letters haven't changed in about 2800 years
- 09/03/2013 09:05:30 PM
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So we do not know WTF numbers the die represents, if it does indeed represent numbers? 
- 09/03/2013 10:15:59 PM
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- 09/03/2013 10:15:59 PM
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There is a simple way to figure out if they represent numbers.
- 10/03/2013 03:33:10 AM
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That probably answers the positional notation aspect we'd been discussing on the other board
- 10/03/2013 04:12:32 AM
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Based on the photo shot, I can't see how the die would be used in a percentile fashion.
- 10/03/2013 03:18:43 PM
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Thanks, it still leaves the purpose rather uncertain but random number generator seems ruled out
- 10/03/2013 05:10:05 PM
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Those are just the first 20 letters (of 24) of the Greek alphabet.
- 10/03/2013 06:57:46 PM
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Billy Dee Williams, March 19th, Pope Lando II
- 08/03/2013 04:15:39 PM
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Wasn't Pope Lando I the guy who made the deal to keep the Roman Empire out of Vatican City Forever? *NM*
- 09/03/2013 12:02:20 AM
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He was acting under pressure, you can't hold it against him! *NM*
- 09/03/2013 08:27:12 AM
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Fine: Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Graf von Schönborn, 24 March, Pius XIII
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Congratulations! We have all tied with 0 points out of a possible 200.
- 13/03/2013 07:27:24 PM
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Victory 
- 13/03/2013 07:40:03 PM
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Calixtus, not Caxtillus. There has never been a Pope "Caxtillus".
- 14/03/2013 12:55:44 AM
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Well, I guess some might say we've gone from the "Nazi Pope" to the "Collaborator Pope"
- 14/03/2013 06:34:23 AM
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I wondered what you would think about him, given his strong rejection of liberation theology. *NM*
- 15/03/2013 06:59:17 AM
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if i had known this pope was almost the last pope, it may have influenced my decision....
- 14/03/2013 02:29:09 PM
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Pope Suburban (the First)
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