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The two dozen or so surviving Cistercian manuscripts that use the system date from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, and cover an area from England to Italy, Normandy to Sweden. The numbers were not used for arithmetic, fractions or accounting, but indicated years, foliation (numbering pages),
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Although mostly confined to the Cistercian order, there was some usage outside it. A late-fifteenth-century Norman treatise on arithmetic used both Cistercian and Indo-Arabic numerals. In one known case, Cistercian numerals were inscribed on a physical object, indicating the calendrical, angular and
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A horizontal stave was most common while the numerals were in use among the Cistercians. A vertical stave was attested only in Northern France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. However, eighteenth- and twentieth-century revivals of the system in France and Germany used a vertical stave.
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The book received mixed reviews. Historian Ann Moyer lauded King for re-introducing the numerical system to a larger audience, since many had forgotten about it. Mathematician Detlef Spalt claimed that King exaggerated the system's importance and made mistakes in applying the system in the book
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When the system spread outside the order in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, numbers into the millions were enabled by compounding with the digit for "thousand". For example, a late-fifteenth century Norman treatise on arithmetic indicated 10,000 as a ligature of
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A fourteenth-century Norman manuscript that used only Cistercian numerals. These were horizontal to fit the flow of the text. Note the round form of the digit 9. Numbers were later retranscribed with Hindu-Arabic digits in the margin notes: here we see 4,484, 715 and
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from Brussels. Each character is a page/column number. These early Cistercian forms, with 3 and 4 swapped for 7 and 8, plus single and double dots for 5 and 6 and a triangular 9, are found in only one other surviving manuscript. The numbers
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There is also some historical variation as to which corner of the number represented which place value. The place-values shown here were the most common among the Cistercians and the only ones used later.
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Numbers written with Cistercian numerals. From left to right: 1 in units place, 2 in tens place (20), 3 in hundreds place (300), 4 in thousands place (4,000), then compound numbers 5,555, 6,789, 9,394.
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King, David A. (1992). "The Ciphers of the Monks and the Astrolabe of Berselius Reconsidered". In Demidov, Sergei S.; Rowe, David; Folkerts, Menso & Scriba, Christoph J. (eds.).
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King, David (1993). "Rewriting history through instruments: The secrets of a medieval astrolabe from Picardy". In Anderson, R. G. W.; Bennett, J. A. & Ryan, W. F. (eds.).
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and an adaptation of Cistercian numerals; the year 1834 at bottom left is written with the four characters for 1000, 800, 30, and 4, rather than the single character for 1834.
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at GitHub. Uses the Private Use Area, since Unicode has declined to assign character codes. Font characters are segments, to be combined into the complete numerals.
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devoted to it. Moritz Wedell, however, called the book a "lucid description" and a "comprehensive review of the history of research" concerning the monks' ciphers.
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divisions of texts, the numbering of notes and other lists, indexes and concordances, arguments in Easter tables, and the lines of a staff in musical notation.
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A copy of the ciphers in a treatise on penmanship (c. 1300 CE) commonly attributed to John of Tilbury, with the corresponding Basingstoke numerical values.
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The vertical forms of the digits (1–9, 10–90, 100–900 and 1,000–9,000), with an innovative form of 5 as engraved on an early-sixteenth-century Norman
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Omitting a digit from a corner meant a value of zero for that power of ten, but there was no digit zero. (That is, an empty stave was not defined.)
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etc.), with a short vertical stroke in place of the dot, or even with a triangle joining to the stave, which in other manuscripts indicated a 9.)
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Samples of mixed alphabetic-Cistercian notation used for foliation in a late thirteenth-century manuscript. Shown are a1 to a6 and g1 to g7.
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Basingstoke's biographer claimed that he learned his system from his teacher in Athens. However, there is no known parallel among
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Digits are based on a horizontal or vertical stave, with the position of the digit on the stave indicating its
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Making Instruments Count: Essays on Historical Scientific Instruments Presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner
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Sesiano, Jacques (1985). "Un système artificiel de numérotation au Moyen Age". In Folkerts, Menso &
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The modern definitive expert on Cistercian numerals is the mathematician and historian of astronomy,
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were apparently based on a two-place (1–99) numeral system introduced into the Cistercian Order by
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Meskens, Ad; Bonte, Germain; De Groot, Jacques; De Jonghe, Mieke & King, David A. (1999).
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of Paris briefly adopted the numerals for mystical use, and in the early twentieth century
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Horizontal numbers were the same, but rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise. (That is,
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at dCode. Uses digit shapes similar to the astrolabe (vertical stave, triangular 5).
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area at least until the early eighteenth century. In the late eighteenth century,
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The Ciphers of the Monks : a forgotten number-notation of the Middle Ages
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were introduced to northwestern Europe. They are more compact than Arabic or
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King, David (1995). "A forgotten Cistercian system of numerical notation".
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Using graphic substitutes with a vertical stave, the first five digits are
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for use on web pages. Includes a live updating Cistercian numeral clock.
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The Ciphers of the Monks: A Forgotten Number-notation of the Middle Ages
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The Ciphers of the Monks: A Forgotten Number-notation of the Middle Ages
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The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism
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has tentatively assigned the units to PUA values U+EBA1 to U+EBAF.)
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and published in 2001, describes the Cistercian numeral system.
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The entry for the word 'aqua' in an early-thirteenth-century
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Background for Unicode consideration of Cistercian numerals
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All Cistercian numerals from 1 to 9999 (open to enlarge).
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The American boys' book of signs, signals and symbols
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Chicago: De Laurence Co. p. 174. 1483: 1374:. Basel: Birkhäuser. pp. 375–388. 1333: 1295: 1215: 1204:in Greece and applied it to an English 947:50. Inverting them forms the hundreds, 841:of Berselius, which was made in French 1898: 1836: 1715: 1702: 1587: 1585: 1799: 1754: 1597: 1552: 1703:Høyrup, Jens (2008). "Book review". 1690: 1678: 1666: 1654: 1628: 1591: 1569: 1520: 1405:"De notis Hebraeorum et Chaldaeorum" 1369: 1344: 1304: 1582: 13: 917:5. 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a series
Numeral systems
Place-value notation
Hindu–Arabic numerals
Western Arabic
Eastern Arabic
Bengali
Devanagari
Gujarati
Gurmukhi
Odia
Sinhala
Tamil
Malayalam
Telugu
Kannada
Dzongkha
Tibetan
Balinese
Burmese
Javanese
Khmer
Lao
Mongolian
Sundanese
Thai
Chinese
Suzhou
Hokkien

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