The Ciphers Of The Monks: A Forgotten Number Notation Of The Middle Ages by David A. King

The Ciphers Of The Monks: A Forgotten Number Notation Of The Middle Ages

David A. King

506 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an a...

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