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Latin: dec, nov, oct, sept, sex, quin, quad, tri, bi/duo, uni.
Greek: dek, ennea, oct, hept, hex, pent, tetra, tri, anhi/di, hen.
If you're familiar with the metric system, dividers as in millimetre (1/1000 of a metre) are Latin based and multipliers as in kilometre (1000 metres) are Greek based.
If you look at the thread "not English but Urdu,,, I think" from the beginning of the month, you'll find a list of the Sanskrit forms from 1-8.
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