Epogdoon

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A number equal to another plus an eighth thereof; a number 1.125 times another. no-plural, rare

    "Eighteen... bears the epogdoon relation to sixteen, which is broken up by the intervention of seventeen, an odd number."

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"Eighteen... bears the epogdoon relation to sixteen, which is broken up by the intervention of seventeen, an odd number."

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπόγδοον (epógdoon), from ἐπι- (epi-, “greater [by]”) + ὄγδοον (ógdoon, “an eighth part”).

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