The attics are a number system used by the early greek.
Attic greek numbers.
The attic or herodianic system of numerals was the first numeral system used in ancient greece.
In addition to singular and plural numbers attic greek had the dual number.
Or as acrophonic numerals from acrophony because the basic symbols derive from the first letters of the ancient greek words that the symbols represented.
These ionic or alphabetical numerals were simply a cipher system in which nine greek letters were assigned to the numbers 1 9 nine more to the numbers 10 90 and nine more to 100 900.
Five ten hundred thousand and ten thousand.
The word attic refers to the place attica which is the main city of athens.
Thousands were often indicated by placing a bar at the left of the corresponding numeral.
This is the system we discuss.
Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal.
The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophis ticated than the egyptian though it was non positional.
This was used to refer to two of.
Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal.
By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals.
This system which arose around 500 b c.
Or so used only six symbols.
The arithmetic operation in attic numbers seems to be difficult but the division is calculated as we calculate today.
Attic refers to the greek territory of attica while herodianic refers to aelius herodianus a grammarian of the 2 nd century a d.
Who described the system in his writings.
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.
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 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.
This is the system we discuss.