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Numerology (known before the 20th century as arithmancy) is the belief in an occult, divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. It is also the study of the numerical value, via an alphanumeric system, of the letters in words and names. When numerology is applied to a person's name, it is a form of onomancy.
In short, numerology is a system where numbers and letters have symbolic or mystical meanings. There are many different schools of numerology, such as the Pythagorean system and Chaldean method.
In numerology, gematria (/ ɡ ə ˈ m eɪ t r i ə /; Hebrew: גמטריא or גימטריה, gimatria, plural גמטראות or גימטריות, gimatriot) [1] is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase by reading it as a number, or sometimes by using an alphanumerical cipher.
Throughout history, societies have had numbers they consider special. [1] [2] For example, in ancient Rome the number 7 was auspicious, [3] in Maya civilisation the number 13 was sacred, [4] in modern-day Japan people give three, five, or seven gifts for luck, and in China the number 8 is considered lucky and 4 is avoided whenever possible. [5]
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In Chinese numerology, the number is considered to be lucky and is often displayed in shop windows and neon signs. [25] [26] In China, 666 can mean "everything goes smoothly" (the number six has the same pronunciation as the character 溜, which means "smooth". [27] Is commonly used by ISPs to blackhole traffic using BGP communities. [28]
The word order in the numerals from 21 to 99 may be inverted: ūnus et vīgintī. Numbers ending in 8 or 9 are usually named in subtractive manner: duodētrīgintā, ūndēquadrāgintā. Numbers may either precede or follow their noun (see Latin word order). Most numbers are invariable and do not change their endings:
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