extension of Tironian stenography: the "etymology" of numbers

.they poured me wine to finish what i started;
they promised me an audience with ms. amber
when i have finished this...

a bargain of a juggling acts between "big boy" terms:
epistemology and etymology -
    but more to the basics of: words without meaning:
letters - syllables and vowels -
    not exactly the realm of nouns of the greek letters:
and their connotations: alpha-       -male
                       alpha-         -beginning
                          omega-              -end
                             sigma-                   -summa summarum
      pi-                    -the whole idea of a circle...
  etc.

how did we arrive at modern numbers?
   did we really have to be introduced to them from
devanagari (a) through arabic (c) to arrive at...
something we already had (b)?              (#)

notably
                did we have to travel from
(a) १ through (c) ١ to get to (b) 1...
given that we already had... (d) I(ota)?

#        devanagari       arabic       greek / latin
0                ०                     ٠
1                १                     ١
2                २                     ٢
3                ३                     ٣
4                ४                     ٤
5                ५                     ٥
6                ६                     ٦
7                ७                     ٧
8                ८                     ٨
9                ९                     ٩

perhaps it was too hard to begin from...
I, II, III, IV...
                       it was hardly an introduction
as mentioned: from india via the arab world...
by al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi...
             V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X...

no one is asking for the aesthetic of...
                        how to write the year 1986
using roman numerals... MCMLXXXVI...
apparently the numerals were effective enough...
to construct aquaducts and a coliseum or two...

i am leaving this rubric open...
i will close it eventually... when i have the...
necessary proof...

of course... at some point the greeks would have
said of the roman numerals:
we can revise them... like blindmen...
and they would associate
a letter designation with an apostrophe indicator:
and because they were greeks...
and "different"... they would have to create
a grapheme of sigma and tau
for the number six (stigma) - ϛ - as if anything new:
given - ς          - many issssses: σigmaς...

  Δʹ        Εʹ     Ϛʹ

⠼⠙       ⠼⠑        ⠼⠋

that's just one part of the story... of course...
were we introduced to hindu numerals?
after the fall of rome thanks to the islamic world?
what about ancient rome:
which... probably heard of I, II, and III
from... east asia...
                seeing how the first three were depicted...
probably thought: fine...
             but when 4 came along?
                           evidently it became too complicated:
hence IV was arrived at...
how it was arrived at? no one who's not anonymous
in history wouldn't know...

point being: if letters were already being used
as "substitutes" for numbers?
   we have: I, V, X, L, C, D, M...
                and... in all honesty... aren't we still
using 10 letters?
             i'll somehow prove that we are...
and that nothing was necessarily introduced
from devenagari via arabic...
since how... could you arrive at: 5...
from ५ via ٥           ?

i will need large matrixes... i'll hide either a letter
in it... or a number...

in that: concerning the genesis of numbers is much
related to: is there really a need for the alphabet -
i.e. the linear memory-erosion that comes
with remembering the sequence...
but not all the letters?

                what if the alphabet could be cited as:
vowels first (a, e, i, o, u) and consonants after?
               after all... the vowels are not placed in the alphabet
by any logic akin to: 1 + 3 = 4...
     jumping through loops...

it is very much akin to extracting vowels from
the consonants and giving them clear numerical order:
gradation...

i must admit, though: i already know that...
4... is going to be... problematic...
notably that i do not remember ever using a closed
version of it when it was hand-written: 丩
                ergo? less of a problem...

the matrixes: since we're looking for the genesis
of numbers... i'll hide them...
pretending that they were always there...

    omicron

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

iota

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­III

zeta

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZ­ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ­
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ­ZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

epsilon
­
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE3EEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­

mu

μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμ­μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ­ (see above, 4)
μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμμμμ­μμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ
μμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμμ

r­oman (sigma)

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS­SSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
S­SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSS­SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSS5­SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

delta

δδδδδδδδ­δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδ­δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ6δδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ­δδδδδδδδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ­δδδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ­δ
δδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδδ

gamma

ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ­Γ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ­ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ7
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ­ΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓ­ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ

beta

ββββββββ­βββββββββββββββββ
βββββββββββββββββββββββββ
βββββββββββββββββββββ­ββββ
βββββββββββββββββββββββββ
βββββββββββββββββββββββββ
ββββββββ­βββββββββββββββββ
βββββββββββββββββββββββββ
βββββββββββββββββββββ­ββββ
βββββββββββββββββββββββββ
βββββββββββββββ8βββββββββ

rho

ρρ­ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρ­ρρρρρρρρρρρρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ­ρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ9ρ
ρρρρρρρρ­ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ
ρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρρ­ρρρρρρρ

evidently some numbers can be seen more
easily than others -
the innovation would have come from...
mixing together...
   these letters - without a designation
of indicating a concept of number:
rather than vowel or consonant...
                        it would involve taking up
either the upper-case or the lower-case
version of a designated letter...
and... investing time into the concept
of chirality...
                        
    of note... Tironian stenography...
                     some might claim: allusions to arabic...
very primitive arabic: a priori: arabic...
but without a posteriori arabic...
                        whereas arabic had a decipher
implementation:
for the most part... due to its archaic nieche usage:
the Tironian notations were: bound to a cipher...

thus... coming back to the original rubric...
do we owe anything to
al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi and the Islamic world
for our numbers?
it's a question that might suggest:
and they always brought with them...
the greek letters?
                   looking at the rubric... once more...

#        devanagari       arabic       greek / latin
0                ०                     ٠                     o
1                १                     ١                     ι
2                २                     ٢                     z
3                ३                     ٣                     ε  that would become                  
4                ४                     ٤                     μ          "2" (зoo)
5                ५                     ٥                     s
6                ६                     ٦                     δ
7                ७                     ٧                     Γ
8                ८                     ٨                     β
9                ९                     ٩                     ρ

  not the numerals... per se... i honestly haven't checked...
perhaps the hindus didn't... the arabs didn't...
what we probably did: fucked-around with
the letters... had dreams that some letters could
be given an: alice through the dream-mirror treatment...

that's not to say we invented the universal
numbers of today... but... by god...
these modern digits look more akin to greek letters...
than devanagari could ever look... like... them...


____________ .

Notes: as in - the original draft

clearly nothing to write: the shed is completed
and as with all things completed:
there's than over-arching melancholy of:
no future... all that is past and is dragging
within the confines of a lose "now":
new avenues to walk down...
but in meantime...
  hopefully trying to squeeze in...
           something that's alt. to a colouring in
book...

888888888888888888888888888888B88888888
no... this will not do...
888888888888888888β88888888888888888888
yes... that would work...

in a little matrix and then in a bigger matrix

88888888888888
888888β8888888
88888888888888
888888888888­8β

888888888888888888888888888888888β8888
8888888888888β88888888­8888888888888888
888888888888888888888888β8888888888888
888888888­88888888888888888β88888888888
88888888888888888888888888888β88888­888
β8888888888888888888888888888888888888
8888888888β88888888888­8888888888888888
888888β8888888888888888888888888888888
888888888­8888888β888888888888888888888
8888888888β888888888888888888888888­888

well... lucky for me... i will use up a penny
of electricity... no tree will be cut...
no canvas... no paint... visual poetics...
or whatever jargon is best spoken...

different number and letter

555555555555555555555555555555555S555
5555555555555555555­5555S5555555555555
5555555555555555555S55555555555555555
S5555555­55555555555555555555555555555
55555555S55555555555555555555555555­55
5555555555555S55555555555555555555555
555555S55555555555555555­5555555555555
55555555555555555S5555555555555555555
5555555555555­5555555555S5555555555555
5555555S55555555555555555555555555555

n­o i'm onto "something"...
no point 1 and l but... no... no point...

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOO
O0OOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOO­OOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOO0OO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOO
­OOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

good point... 6b vs. 6δ

6666666666666b66666666666666666666666
66666δ66666666666666666­66666666666666
666666666666666666666b666666666666666
666666666666­6666666666666666666δ66666
66666666666666666666666666666666b6666
6­6666δ6666666666666666666666666666666
6666666666b66666666666666666­666666666
6666666666666666666666666δ66666666666
66666666666666666­66666666666666b66666

    well... if X denotes 10...
      and VII denotes 7...
                          and it is far more easier
to hide a greek delta among sixes...
than it is to hide a roman beta...
                         "etymology"...
yes... about that origins in india...
   translated / introduced to europeans by
al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi...

i'm pretty sure... the greek delta (δ)
didn't originate in india...
             iota: I 1... omicron 0...
        S and 5

3... and 8...

33333333333β3333333333333333333333333
333333333333333333333­3333383333333333
33333333333β3333333333333333333333333
3333333333­333333333338333333333333333
333333333333333333333333333333β333333­
3333833333333333333333333333333333333
333333333333333333333333β3­33333333333
3333333333333333383333333333333333333
333β33333333333­3333333333333333333333
3333333333333333333333333338333333333

or?­ xi:

ξξξξξξξξξξξξξξξ3ξξξξξξξξξξξξξξξξξξ

alt.:  3ξ8βξ3β8ξβ833βξ8...
­
4... is a dilema... 9P 2Z...
                            
   origins of numbers: "etymology" except...
not words... origin of letters?
               big bang: whoop-t'do!
Tiro: and the "a priori" of arabic...
or rather: Tiro... stenography as
the a posteriori of arabic...
        Tiro and Aesop... sitting in a tree...

for etc.: ⁊c... or:
dalet (ד)... xaf sofit (ך)... resh (ר)...
but... 7... the contender is dalet...
דדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדד⁊דדדדדדדדדדדדדדד
דדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדד­דדדד⁊דדדדדדדד
דדדדד⁊דדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדד
דדדדדדדדדדדדדדדד­דדדד⁊דדדדדדדדדדדדד
דדדדדדדדד⁊דדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדד
דדדדדדדדדדד­דדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדד⁊דדדד
דדדדדדדדדדדדדדד⁊דדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדדד

of course... much easier to see...
but then again... the chiral of gamma...
or the latin lambda:
for & 7: Γ

ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓ­ΓΓΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ­ΓΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ­ΓΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ7ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ
ΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓΓ­Γ7

h'america... why i would never wish it
upon myself (my self... contest
of: vs. the reflexive and the reflective...
the reflexive is compounded...
the reflective is... not any time soon...
under the oxford dictionary
scrutiny of the hyphen & heimlich) -
h'america: the... u! the s! the a!
a land of freedoms as long as zoological
geometry is not mentioned...
pepperspray the cockroaches
with more and more acronyms!
       land: of acronyms and a budding:
newly regained sense of... introspection...

4... still bothers me: IV...
what letter could have provided the a priori
route?

already establishded:
2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z
2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z
2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z­2Z2Z
2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z
2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z
2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z­2Z2Z2Z2Z
2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z2Z

                better:

ZZZZZZZ­2ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ2ZZZZZZ
ZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZ­ZZZZZZZZZ2Z
ZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZ­Z2ZZZZZZZ
ZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

und (what of) waß von...
siebenundzwanzig (27)?
sieben-und-zwanzig-danzig-tenz:
und tausandz!

ZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZ7ZZZZ
ZZZZ2ZZZZZ7ZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZ2ZZZZZ­ZZ7ZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZ7ZZZZ
ZZZZ2ZZZZZZ7ZZZZZZZZZ
Z7ZZZ2ZZZ­ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZ7ZZZZZZZ
ZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZ7ZZZZ

should the sphynx / cerberus know...
almost all letters are in italics...
if... they govern: root... notably with
7 and Z...              wurzel...
no... this will simply not just do...
wu(rz)el...
              yes: i know it's wur-zel...
and not wu(ж)el...
well yes: half-a-caron matters (ź)...
                  so the full-caron is given
a splendid i-j dot to govern (ż)
                   and replace the caron (ž)...

ź-renica: pupil
    ż-ebrak... beggar...
                    the suffix is not the focus
of any "argument"... but...
but...   ź-rebak colt / foal -
exfoliating into: źrebię: unit of one:
the lesser... or the dictum reserved for
schoolchildren...

this is orthography to me...
perhaps what would become of Dickens'
understanding of a simple matter
of a spelling mistake...
but orthography is born from applied:
diacritical stressors...
not from a lack of them...

if you have the time and patience...
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thinner... much thinner...
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almost in bold... well: in... bold...