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===Alternative Numbers=== | ===Alternative Numbers=== | ||
The Gothic number system, which used the letters of the alphabet instead of unique | The Gothic number system, modeled after the Greek system, which used the letters of the alphabet instead of separate unique characters, continued to be used well into the middle ages (Middle Gutish), and certain taboo numbers came to be called by their character representation rather than their numeric form. Primarily among these numbers was '13', which was written in Gothic as ''·ig·''. This also occurred with the numbers '113' (''rig''), '213' (''sig''), '313' (''tig''), '413' (''wig''), and '513' (''fig''). (This was not mirrored in the higher numbers of the hundreds, because most of those combinations would have been unpronounceable.) | ||
The number '19' is also sometimes called ''iþ'' by the same formulation. | The number '19' is also sometimes called ''iþ'' by the same formulation. | ||