The attic or herodianic system of numerals was the first numeral system used in ancient greece.
Attic greek numbers.
Or so used only six symbols.
This is the system we discuss.
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 refers to the greek territory of attica while herodianic refers to aelius herodianus a grammarian of the 2 nd century a d.
The word attic refers to the place attica which is the main city of athens.
By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic 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.
The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophis ticated than the egyptian though it was non positional.
Five ten hundred thousand and ten thousand.
This section mentions only some of the attic peculiarities.
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.
The arithmetic operation in attic numbers seems to be difficult but the division is calculated as we calculate today.
The attics are a number system used by the early greek.
All greeks and all barbarians alike count up to ten and having reached ten revert again to the unity.
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.
Attic numeration was used by the ancient greeks probably starting in the 7th century b c.
This is the reason.
Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal.
This is the system we discuss.
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.
This was used to refer to two of.
In addition to singular and plural numbers attic greek had the dual number.
The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophisticated than the egyptian though it was non positional.
ι 1 π 5 δ 10 πδ 50 η 100 πη 500 χ 1000 πχ 5000 μ 10000 and πμ 50000.
This system which arose around 500 b c.
And again pythagoras maintains the power of the number 10 lies in the number 4 the tetrad.
By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals.
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.
A sharp accent is placed at the end of the group to distinguish numbers from letters.
