ANC: Alphabetic Numerology Calculator

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Alphabetic Numerology Calculator
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For input larger than 40 characters, the details won't show the addition so it won't look too cluttered.

How to Use

  • Type the text you want to count on the input box, you'll see the output.
  • To clear everything, delete all input.
  • Use the option to pick certain version(s) to calculate your input.
  • Typical usage: type a name (letters) or anything you want. Then you'll see the total values of those characters.
  • Hit DETAILS to see the detail of each version.
    To close the pretty much confusing info, hit CLOSE button.
  • To reverse the mapping, hit REVERSE?
    To use normal mapping, hit NORMAL. You can also hit the top label REVERSED or NORMAL to switch between them as long as the input isn't empty.
  • Hit TOP to scroll to input box.
  • You may also open couple tabs to observe the reversed and normal outputs.
    With Google Chrome — on desktop, there's a new feature: Open link in split view ➡️ right click on
    this link
    you'll see the option on the context menu.
  • < and > characters are automatically omitted before calculation.

This is also known as Gematria (Aramaic), or geometry (of letters and numbers). Similar method can also be found in other cultures, namely Indian (India), Chinese, and the derivations, but using their own letters and perspectives. Although different in languages, but the perspectives are usually equivalent, since the observed object is our own realm. Number is the language of angels, some said, I said it, angels as in not human, beyond human. And or but, there're categories for them.

ANC only works for numeral and A-Z alphabet (and ampersand & character only for Jewish Ordinal version). English word is recommended to be calculated.

To see each version mapping (letter: value), hit DETAILS and scroll to the bottom of that particular version.

Standard Hebrew Numeric

The Hebrew numerical is as such:

For tens, like 11, 12, 13, ..., 19, it is adding yod (י value 10) with the unit number (same with twenties, thirties, hundreds, and so forth).

Let's see couple examples:

  1. 12 = 10 + 2 ➡️ יב (consists of yod and bet, read it from RIGHT to LEFT). 12 is pronounced as shneyim-'asar (masculine) and shteyim-'esre (feminine).

    In Arabic, 12 is athnay eashar (اِثْنا عَشَرَ) — one version.

  2. 17 = 10 + 7 ➡️ יז (consists of yod and zayin), shiv'a-'asar (masculine) and shva'-'esre (feminine).

    In Arabic, 17 is sbet eshr (سبعة عشر) — one version.

Except for 15 and 16. In Hebrew, those numbers do not use the addition with yod.

15 is ט״ו (tet and vav with gershayim/double geresh — to denote that it is a number)

➡️ tet (9) + vav (6) ➡️ 9 + 6 = 15.

16 is ט״ז (tet and zayin with a gershayim also)

➡️ tet (9) + zayin (7) ➡️ 9 + 7 = 16.

The restriction is applied to avoid the confusion for the writing of יהוה (YHWH, Tetragrammaton, consists of 4 letters), יַהְוֶה (Yahweh), יְהֹוָה (Yehovah) and אֲדֹנָי (Adonai), related to Elohim (אֱלֹהִים), Elyon (עליון) — names of God in Judaism. Related to El (אל), deity in Canaanite religion.

The masculine/feminine cardinal is only used for 1 through 19. When to use the masculine or the feminine depends on the described noun. If it has no such noun, then the feminine version is used, like a page number of a book.

In Arabic numerals, gender matters when numbers describe nouns, especially 1-19. If there's no noun (like page numbers), there's no strict masculine/feminine rule.

Plus other syntax rules when involving adjective and ordinal (first, second, third, ...). 0 and number ≥20 only use one version of each. Well, I suppose you could learn more about Hebrew (and Arabic, as comparison) on another place.

Gender-Base Grammar

About the neutering in English, it's simply because English omits the grammatical gender. Because... plural of deer is deer, beside — besides, and so on. Sod all that gender lark — we'll just call everything "it" and be done with it!

⬆️ At least in the Indo-European and Semitic families, gender-based languages are older than the neutered ones (e.g. English).

Gender-based languages (like Sanskrit, Greek, Latin — left to right system) are older than their neutered descendants (like English or Hindi). Though Sanskrit has no direct connection to Phoenician, especially the spoken language itself. 🤔 But of course, there's always the Wanderwörter phenomenon, wandering words. The Phoenicians came up with letters first before everyone else — well, as a practical writing system, because we don't see Egyptian hieroglyphs or Sumerian cuneiform being used now, ever. Everyone was speaking to each other, memorising, no consensus of writing system at first. You know, after... the "Nimrod incident"? The writing system in each culture was built gradually, eventually. Some borrowed letters from the Phoenicians.

I put the "ever" there with a comma, because it needs a bloody emphasis. Since using Sumerian cuneiform in today's language is like Tesco in Dubai is using kanji to display discounted melons imported from a river. Imagine that.

Specifically Sanskrit, "no direct connection to Phoenician", but possibly borrowed from a Semitic script — Aramaic or even a South Semitic trade script, brought through merchant contact. So, that. Because during 9th to 4th century BC, Aramaic was enormously widespread as a trade and diplomatic language across the Near East and into Central Asia, so contact with Indian merchants was practically inevitable.

Perhaps as such:

Phoenician ➡️ Aramaic ➡️ possibly Brahmi ➡️ Devanagari ➡️ Sanskrit's written form

Big "possibly". So hey, simply a hunch. Because Aramaic was already right to left, the Brahmi went left to right. Somewhere in that, Actually, we're going the other way, cheers! ⬅️ from this enormous "possibly" hunch. Just like the Greek, borrowed and modified Phoenician bits, flipped the writing direction. Take a glance at Alphabet post.

But! Chinese, Austroasiatic, and Tai-Kadai languages show that gender isn't a universal feature. They're just different from the beginning.

Thus English — the Mighty English — is mighty. Baffling. We love it. Don't we? We do and don't, like always.

Writing Systems

Back to ANC, the standard numerical, the letter reference and arithmetic for presenting a numeral is very similar to Greek or (olden) Armenian numeral but has RIGHT to LEFT composition. And of course, with different letter reference.

Categories:

  • The Hebrew (and Arabic) letter system for writing is called Abjad (Arabic: Alif, Ba, Ta, Tha, Jim, Ha, Kha, Dal, Dhal, ...). The writing orientation is RIGHT to LEFT ( ⬅️ ).
  • The Armenian, Greek, Cyrillic, etc.., and A to Z (Latin) is called Alphabetic system. Alphabetic writing always goes from LEFT to RIGHT ( ➡️ ).
  • Kanji, Kana, Hanja, ... (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, ...) is called (syllable-based) Logographic. Asian writing typically implements TOP to BOTTOM and RIGHT to LEFT orientation ( ⬇️ ⬅️ ). But nowadays, it can also be done LEFT to RIGHT similar to Latin (A-Z) writing orientation ( ➡️ ).
  • Sanskrit, Tamil, Khmer, Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, Batak, Thai, Lao, Inuit, Tifinagh, ... is called Abugida (Avugida). Avugida system usually applies LEFT to RIGHT orientation ( ➡️ ).

The categorisation was made not by me, but by not me. The final, clean, structured categorisation was done by Daniels (Peter Thomas Daniels) and Bright (William Oliver Bright) in 90s — The World's Writing Systems (1996), Oxford University Press.

Because we are observing English language (also for other languages with A to Z letters only), so the standard numerical is not included in ANC.

Arithmetic


This tool will add all values from each character and then simplify that into one digit number, 1 through 9. Except if you type just 0 and/or non-letter/non-number.

All of them use the same arithmetic to simplify the number.


Example for Pythagorean version:

Let's calculate this word: YES

In A-Z, "Y" is at position (index) 25, "E" is 5, and "S" is 19.

The sum from addition of the actual indexes is called "ORIGINAL TOTAL". And the result from the addition of the "reduced" indexes is called "REDUCED TOTAL".
Reducing is as such, any number above 9 can be simplified into one digit (1-9).
For example: 12, the reduced version of 12 ➡️ 1 + 2 = 3.

Thus, the calculation of the word "YES" goes like this (in Pythagorean version):

ORIGINAL TOTAL ➡️ 25 + 5 + 19 = 49

REDUCED TOTAL ➡️ 7 + 5 + 1 = 13

ISOPSEPHY (from original total 49) ➡️ 4 + 9 = 13 ➡️ 1 + 3 = 4

ISOPSEPHY (from reduced total 13) ➡️ 1 + 3 = 4

Both original total and reduced total will always have the same isopsephy.


In computer programming (any language not just JavaScript), finding isopsephy is using modulus operator (%). The modulus operator in modulo operation is to find the remainder of the division, like 3 ÷ 2 has remainder 1, or 3 % 2 = 1.


Operation in programming, for instance:

Isopsephy of 49 (base-10, use the largest digit for the divisor, 9) ➡️ 49 % 9 = 4

But be careful, because 9 % 9 = 0 or 45 % 9 = 0, therefore, you need to put if to check the input first before doing the operation.


So finding isopsephy can be done by doing looping addition, or using modulo operation. So then, with that knowledge, without doing any division, the remainder of 113 ÷ 9 can be calculated by adding all single digits in 113 ➡️ 1 + 1 + 3 = 5.


For division of multiples of 9 by 9, like 113211 ÷ 9 ➡️ 1 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 9. Since the addition yields the divisor itself (9), meaning the division has no remainder.


This method works only for division by 9 (largest digit of decimal). It doesn't work for any other number (as the divisor). Unless you're doing something in a different numeral base system.


Zero (0), by definition, is the representation of nothing. When zero (0) is divided or multiplied by other non-zero, the result will be zero. Zero multiplied by zero is zero, non-zero divided by zero is undefined, and zero divided by zero is indeterminate. 🫠