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