Attic Greek Numbers

This is the system we discuss.

Attic greek numbers. A sharp accent is placed at the end of the group to distinguish numbers from letters. All greeks and all barbarians alike count up to ten and having reached ten revert again to the unity. Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal. Or so used only six symbols.

The attics are a number system used by the early greek. Attic numeration was used by the ancient greeks probably starting in the 7th century b c. This system which arose around 500 b c. This was used to refer to two of.

The attic or herodianic system of numerals was the first numeral system used in ancient greece. 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. Who described the system in his writings. The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophis ticated than the egyptian though it was non positional.

Attic greek grammar is to a large extent ancient greek grammar or at least when the latter topic is presented it is with the peculiarities of the attic dialect. The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophisticated than the egyptian though it was non positional. Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal. This is the system we discuss.

To each figure of a unit 1 9 a letter is assigned to each ten 10 90 another letter and to each hundred 100 900 another letter. In addition to singular and plural numbers attic greek had the dual number. This is the reason. If one starts at the unit 1 and adds the successive number up to 4 one will make up the number 10 1 2 3 4 10.

By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals. The word attic refers to the place attica which is the main city of athens. And again pythagoras maintains the power of the number 10 lies in the number 4 the tetrad. ι 1 π 5 δ 10 πδ 50 η 100 πη 500 χ 1000 πχ 5000 μ 10000 and πμ 50000.

Attic refers to the greek territory of attica while herodianic refers to aelius herodianus a grammarian of the 2 nd century a d. By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals. Or as acrophonic numerals from acrophony because the basic symbols derive from the first letters of the ancient greek words that the symbols represented. 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.

The arithmetic operation in attic numbers seems to be difficult but the division is calculated as we calculate today.