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by Adverblessly 823 days ago
Minor correction: that's טו and טז.

אבגדהוזחט - count one through nine

יכלמנסעפצ - count ten through ninety

קרשת - count one hundred through four hundred

so תו would be 406 while טו is 9+6=15

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D’oh that’s what I get for trusting my mediocre Hebrew keyboarding skills. For those who don’t know the Hebrew alphabet, both ת and ט are commonly transcribed as T (the former often as TH, but it’s meant to be a German aspirated T sound rather than the English th).