Abnum 3
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Alphabetic numerals package (Python 3) including various letter value
substituting systems from ancient times to 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

```python
    from abnum import Abnum, greek, phoenician

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

    p = Abnum(phoenician)
    print(list(map(g.value, "𐤀𐤍𐤊 𐤕𐤁𐤍𐤕 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤁𐤍".split(" ")))) #
```

## Jupyter notebooks

Please see Jupyter notebooks for further study and examples:

[Usage of the library](Abnum%203%20introduction.ipynb). Includes the verification of the isopsephical value of the Bergama stele, 100 - 200 AD.

[Isopsephical riddle of the Sibylline verses](Isopsephical%20riddle%20of%20the%20Pseudo%20Sibylline%20hexameter.ipynb), Book 1, lines 137 - 146.

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