Numerical values of Latin letters

[Maximilian Hasler]

when I paste your line A=500... into google, I get among others the hit:

http://www.n-n-a.com/recreational/about51344.html

with several serious references.

M.H.

On Nov 19, 2007 5:41 AM, David Garber <garber at hit.ac.il> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have the following question: I have encountered in a Judaica book the following numerical values for Latin letters:
> A=500, B=300, C=100, D=500, E=250, F=40, G=400, ...
> It is written there that it should appear in the beginning of the first book of Niccolo Tartaglia.
>
> I have tried by Google to find some information on this but I failed.
>
> Can you add me more information about this interesting numerical values?
>
> Thank you very much,
> David Garber.
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