Pi (letter)

High school (ages 12+)
Mathematics & Numbers

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the alphabetical position?The sixteenth letter of the ancient Greek alphabet
2. What is the phonetic value?Represents the voiceless bilabial plosive IPA [p]
3. What is the Greek letter Pi and where does it come from?Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet. It sounds like the 'p' in 'pat' and was adapted from the Phoenician letter Pe.
4. Why does Pi have a number value in ancient Greek?In ancient Greek numerals, each letter had a specific number. Pi was assigned the value 80, so letters could be used to write numbers.

Voiceless Bilabial Plosive: A speech sound produced by obstructing airflow with both lips and then releasing it without vocal cord vibration.
Phoenician Alphabet: An ancient consonantal alphabet originating in Phoenicia, influential in the development of many scripts.
Greek Numerals: An ancient system of notation where letters of the Greek alphabet were used to represent numbers.
Grapheme: The smallest functional unit in a written language, such as a letter or a punctuation mark.