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Four digits in one figure.
Also known as: Monastic ciphers, Cistercian ciphers
The medieval monastic notation writing any number up to 9999 as a single compound glyph.
Writes any integer from one to nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine as a single glyph built on one stem.
Contexts: Mathematics, Technical drawing
Assigns each quadrant of the stem a decimal place, so the position of a stroke carries its magnitude and the whole number occupies the space of one character.
Contexts: Mathematics, Technical drawing
Used for foliation, dating and year-numbering in manuscripts rather than for calculation: it is a compact way to record a number and no way at all to work with one.
Contexts: Mathematics, Technical drawing
A vertical stem with short strokes attached in four quadrants — upper right for units, upper left for tens, lower right for hundreds, lower left for thousands — combining into one figure.