arithmology

Novelists of my stamp are interested in what is called arithmology, meaning that number has to mean something in human terms when they handle it.

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

Novelists of my stamp are interested in what is called arithmology, meaning that number has to mean something in human terms when they handle it (Burgess vi).

Stone Pastorals: Three Men on the Side of the Horses 1996

Marruccos por El P.Fr. Josè de Lerchundi, Madrid 1872): This lack of the higher numerals, the reverse of the Hindu languages, makes Arabic "arithmology" very primitive and almost as cumbrous as the Chinese.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

On the other hand, some scholars have cast doubt on Archytas 'prowess as a mathematician, arguing that some of his work looks like “mere arithmology” and “mathematical mystification”

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

Sefer ha-Ehad is Ibn Ezra's venture in arithmology.

Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006

Finally, he dispersed a number of fairly long digressions, self-standing essays in their own right, in which, in which he generally rehearsed the gamut of his trademark views on grammar, arithmology, and astrology.

Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006

Archytas, but the fragments suggest not an adept of arithmology, of which there is no trace, but an original mind engaged in mathematical investigations.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968

“arithmology” very primitive and almost as cumbrous as the Chinese.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“neoplatonic” also on the strength of his deep involvement in astrology and arithmology, as well as his deep longing for release from this world.

Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006