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Katapayadi system
Ancient Indian alphasyllabic numeral system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kaṭapayādi system (Devanagari: कटपयादि, also known as Paralppēru, Malayalam: പരല്പ്പേര്) of numerical notation is an ancient Indian alphasyllabic numeral system to depict letters to numerals for easy remembrance of numbers as words or verses. Assigning more than one letter to one numeral and nullifying certain other letters as valueless, this system provides the flexibility in forming meaningful words out of numbers which can be easily remembered.
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