The Greek numerical prefixes are used for naming things like polygons, polyhedra and polynomials:: * mono = 1 * di = 2 * tri = 3 * tetra = 4 * penta = 5 * hexa = 6 * hepta = 7 * octa = 8 * ennea = 9 * deca = 10 * hendeca = 11 * dodeca = 12 * triskaideca = 13 * tetrakaideca...enneakaideca = 14...19 * icosa = 20 * icosikaihena = 21 * icosidi...icosiennea = 22...29 * triaconta = 30 * tetraconta...enneaconta = 40..90 * hecto | hecato = 100 * chilia = 1000 * myria = 10000 The word "kai", meaning and, is often omitted. Chemistry uses a slightly different set of prefixes, two of which come from latin:: * nona = 9 * undeca = 11 And the rest of which are pretty much made up:: * henicosa = 21 * docosa...nonacosa = 22...29 * hentriaconta...nonatriaconta = 31...39 * kilia = 1000 * dilia...nonalia = 2000...9000 And, finally, for large numbers these prefixes are used: * bi = 2 * tri = 3 * quadra = 4 * quinta = 5 * sexta = 6 * septa = 7 * octo = 8 * nona = 9 * deca = 10 * undeca = 11 * dodeca = 12 * tredeca = 13 * quattuordeca = 14 * quinquedeca = 15 * sexdeca = 16 * septendeca = 17 * octodeca = 18 * novemdeca = 19 * viginti = 20 * unviginti...novemviginti = 21...29 * triginti = 30 Some of these suffices need checking, since these are not quite the latin names of the numbers...but in the actual compounds (e.g. octillion, vigintillion) they disappear. ---- See also ReallyBigNumbers