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What is the meaning of deca- or octa-core and the like?

Deca means ten in Greek. Octo means eight also in Greek, but when octo is used in composite words it becomes octa-. Therefore, deca-core, means ten-core and octa-core means eight-core. Why are we using Greek words to describe the CPU or other hardware or software features, when we could very well use modern English? After […]

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Microsoft Word Hyphenator Add-in for Greek Polytonic texts

Since 2013 Microsoft Word hyphenates polytonic Greek documents even automatically; for older Word versions you can download Ancient Greek Hyphenator, a convenient free template that adds accurate hyphenation macros. I have tried it in a long document (900 pages) written in polytonic (ancient and modern) Greek, and it worked without faults and very fast. A help file […]

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Old Standard (Teubner) and Didot Unicode Greek Polytonic Fonts

Old Standard and Theano Didot are two of the most interesting free unicode fonts containing polytonic Greek. Old Standard was intended as a multilingual font family suitable for biblical, classical and medieval studies as well as for general-purpose typesetting in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic script. It reproduces a specific type of Modern (classicist) […]

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Best free dictionaries and language vocabulary learning tools

OpenTeacher is a free vocabulary training application you can use if you learn a foreign language. To start practicing you need to enter a list of words in both a known and a foreign language. Features: Smart question asking and interval training * Think answer, shuffle answer and repeat answer input modes * Easy symbol, […]

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