Greek for 50?

[Ogrork the Mighty]

What is the Greek prefix for fifty?

 

[Piratecat]

It's "Off topic," Mister "I have 1900 posts but forget which forum to post in."

 

[Umbran]

Do you mean in the metric sense, as in a kilometer is 1000 meters? If that's how you mean it... there isn't one.

The SI system is actually naming useful powers of ten: deca (one power of ten), hecto (two powers of ten), kilo (three powers of ten). From there, we start skipping by threes:

mega: 10^6
giga: 10^9
tera: 10^12
peta: 10^15

This sequence, as you continue, misses 10^50. The SI system goes up to 10^24, and doesn't bother to go higher. There is a proposal for an extension that covers 10^48 (quexa) and 10^51 (pepta).

The funny one in that extension is 10^42 (prefix "sorta"). As in, "I travelled a sortameter to get here!"

 

[Knight Otu]

Do you mean in the metric sense, as in a kilometer is 1000 meters? If that's how you mean it... there isn't one.

Though you could "engineer" it, if for some reason you need it. For that, we'll need the greek word for 50. A search suggests pentekonta (actually pentêkonta, but we'll be cheap and shave off that accent). So a pentekontahedron would be a fifty-sided die.

 

[waterdhavian]

If by Greek 50 you mean, how dodeca is 12 and hexa is 6. Then 50 would be Pentaconta. or something close to that spelling.
Peninda is a rough translation of 50 in Greek into the Latin alphabet.

In terms of dice. A twenty sider would be a icosahedron and a fifty sider a pentacontahedron.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

If by Greek 50 you mean, how dodeca is 12 and hexa is 6. Then 50 would be Pentaconta.

That's what I'm looking for. And it even sounds cool!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Best Michael J. Fox voice:

What the heck is a jigawatt?!!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Best Michael J. Fox voice:

What the heck is a jigawatt?!!

In best Jay-Z voice:

Jigga who?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

In best Jay-Z voice:

Jigga who?

Hahaha. Hehe.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Gotta love Wiki! 50 sides is a pentacontagon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon