Abnum 3

Alphabetic numerals package for Python 3. Module includes various letter value substituting systems from the ancient times to the modern artificial ones.

Abnum substitution system is better known as gematria in hebrew and isopsephy in greek, abjad in arabic alphabet and katapayadi in sanskrit.

Currently supported languages are:

• greek (grc)
• hebrew (heb)
• coptic (cop)
• aramaic (arm)
• syriaic (syc)
• arabic (ara)
• phoenician (phn)
• brahmi (brh)
• english (eng)
• finnish (fin)

Install

pip install abnum

Usage

Get the value of the greek phrase by adding letter values and returning the sum:

    from abnum import Abnum, greek

    g = Abnum(greek)
    print(g.value('ο Λογος')) # 443

Use multiplication instead of addition:

    from abnum import Abnum, greek
    from operator import mul
    g = Abnum(greek)
    # use an arithmetic function as the second argument and a start value as the third
    print(g.value('ο Λογος', mul, 1)) # 6174000000

Phoenician script:

    from abnum import Abnum, phoenician
    p = Abnum(phoenician)
    a = list(map(g.value, "𐤀𐤍𐤊 𐤕𐤁𐤍𐤕 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤁𐤍".split(" ")))
    print(a, sum(a))

    [71, 852, 75, 1370, 90, 184, 52], 2694

Jupyter notebooks

Please see Jupyter notebooks for further study and examples:

Usage of the library. Includes the verification of the isopsephical value of the Bergama stele, 100 - 200 AD.

Isopsephical riddle of the Sibylline verses, Book 1, lines 137 - 146.

Python 2 version of the Abnum library can still be found from: https://github.com/markomanninen/abnum