Attic Greek Numerals

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.

Attic greek numerals.

By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals. Second is the milesian alexandrian ionic or alphabetic numerals. Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal. In addition to singular and plural numbers attic greek had the dual number.

The arithmetic operation in attic numbers seems to be difficult but the division is calculated as we calculate today. The greek system of abbreviations known today as attic numerals appears in the records of the 5th century bce but was probably used much earlier. First is the acrophonic or herodian or attic 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.

ι 1 π 5 δ 10 πδ 50 η 100 πη 500 χ 1000 πχ 5000 μ 10000 and πμ 50000. This section mentions only some of the attic peculiarities. This system which arose around 500 b c. Who described the system in his writings.

Attic refers to the greek territory of attica while herodianic refers to aelius herodianus a grammarian of the 2 nd century a d. This is the system we discuss. A simple and useful attic greek numerals converter with the attic numerals list to find the attic of the numerals. This numerals were used by the ancient greeks.

The attic or herodianic system of numerals was the first numeral system used in ancient greece. The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophisticated than the egyptian though it was non positional. This is the system we discuss. 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.

By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals. 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. ι 1 π 5 δ 10 πδ 50 η 100 πη 500 χ 1000 πχ 5000 μ 10000 and πμ 50000. Enter any number in the greek number converter to find its corresponding attic number.

The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophis ticated than the egyptian though it was non positional. The greeks had two number systems.