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This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
Isopsephy adds the number values of the letters in a word to form one number, used as a bridge to other words of the same value. Aristotle wrote that the Pythagoreans practised it; it is the Greek predecessor of Hebrew gematria.
How it works
Each Greek letter has a value in the alphabetic (Milesian) numeral system; the values of a word are summed and compared with other words.
At a glance
- Also called
- Isopsephism, Greek letter numbers
- Traditions
- Ancient Greek
- Regions
- Ancient Mediterranean
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- Price
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