https://github.com/rhardih/cistercian
Commandline tool to generate Cistercian numerals
https://github.com/rhardih/cistercian
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Commandline tool to generate Cistercian numerals
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/rhardih/cistercian
- Owner: rhardih
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-07-10T20:10:33.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-07-30T10:56:09.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-25T04:41:57.856Z (about 1 month ago)
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 10.7 KB
- Stars: 45
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# cistercian
Commandline tool to generate [Cistercian numerals].
> The medieval Cistercian numerals, or "ciphers" in nineteenth-century parlance,
> were developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth
> century at about the time that Arabic numerals were introduced to northwestern
> Europe. They are more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals, with a single
> glyph able to indicate any integer from 1 to 9,999. Digits are based on a
> horizontal or vertical stave, with the position of the digit on the stave
> indicating its place value (units, tens, hundreds or thousands). These digits
> are compounded on a single stave to indicate more complex numbers.
## Installation
```bash
go get github.com/rhardih/cistercian
```
## Example usage
### Text
```bash
$ cistercian 7323
╷
│╲
│ ╲
│ ╲
────┤
│
│
│
╷ │
│ │ ╱
│ │ ╱
│ │╱
└───┘
```
### SVG
```bash
$ cistercian -svg 5221 > 5221.svg
```
Result:
[Cistercian numerals]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals