By the alexandrian age the greek attic system of enumeration was being replaced by the ionian or alphabetic numerals.
Attic greek numbers.
Who described the system in his writings.
This system which arose around 500 b c.
The ionian greek system of enumeration was a little more sophis ticated than the egyptian though it was non positional.
This section mentions only some of the attic peculiarities.
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.
Attic refers to the greek territory of attica while herodianic refers to aelius herodianus a grammarian of the 2 nd century a d.
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.
Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal.
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.
This is the system we discuss.
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.
In addition to singular and plural numbers attic greek had the dual number.
Like the attic and egyptian systems it was also decimal.
The attics are a number system used by the early greek.
The arithmetic operation in attic numbers seems to be difficult but the division is calculated as we calculate today.
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.
Or so used only six symbols.
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.