Attic Greek Numerals

First is the acrophonic or herodian or attic numerals.

Attic greek numerals.

Attic numerals were used by the ancient greeks possibly from the 7th century bc they were also known as herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd century manuscript by herodian they are also known as acrophonic numerals because the symbols derive from the first letters of the words that the symbols represent. Enter any number in the greek number converter to find its corresponding attic number. The attic numerals are a symbolic number notation used by the ancient greeks they were also known as herodianic numerals because they were first described in a 2nd century manuscript by herodian. This numerals were used by the ancient greeks.

The greeks had two number systems. According to the classification of archaic greek alphabets which was introduced by adolf kirchhoff the old attic system belongs to the eastern or blue type as it uses the letters ψ and χ with their classical values ps and kʰ unlike western or red alphabets which used χ for. Thousands were often indicated by placing a bar at the left of the corresponding numeral. Five ten hundred thousand and ten thousand.

Or as acrophonic numerals from acrophony because the basic symbols derive from the first letters of the ancient greek words that the symbols represented. Attic numbers were largely used for cardinal numbers for counting not for ordering and were not used to. ι 1 π 5 δ 10 πδ 50 η 100 πη 500 χ 1000 πχ 5000 μ 10000 and πμ 50000. By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals.

Attic numbers were later replaced by the ionian numbers even in attica. The attic or herodianic system of numerals was the first numeral system used in ancient greece. Or so used only six symbols. Attic refers to the greek territory of attica while herodianic refers to aelius herodianus a grammarian of the 2 nd century a d.

Second is the milesian alexandrian ionic or alphabetic numerals. The earliest alphabet related system of numerals used with the greek letters was a set of the acrophonic attic numerals operating much like roman numerals which derived from this scheme with the following formula. A simple and useful attic greek numerals converter with the attic numerals list to find the attic of the numerals. In greek the h sound is found at the start of words and was dropped altogether in some dialects.

The arithmetic operation in attic numbers seems to be difficult but the division is calculated as we calculate today. Attic greek like other dialects was originally written in a local variant of the greek alphabet. The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophisticated than the egyptian though it was non positional. Attica is a region of greece whose main city is athens.

This is the system we discuss. This system which arose around 500 b c.