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Modern · A=1 … Z=26

English ordinal

The simplest modern machine. Twenty-six letters, twenty-six numbers. Nothing older is smuggled in by using it.

Normalization: uppercase, keep A–Z, strip the rest. Digits already written in a title are not this cipher. If you add a written “42” to a letter-sum, that is composite arithmetic: label it.

English ordinal · 26 cells. Other faces on the system pages.
  1. A1
  2. B2
  3. C3
  4. D4
  5. E5
  6. F6
  7. G7
  8. H8
  9. I9
  10. J10
  11. K11
  12. L12
  13. M13
  14. N14
  15. O15
  16. P16
  17. Q17
  18. R18
  19. S19
  20. T20
  21. U21
  22. V22
  23. W23
  24. X24
  25. Y25
  26. Z26

Modern English alphabetic convention. Not Milesian. Not Hebrew. J is the tenth letter here. It is skipped in the Latin-Hebrew-style mapping.

The English spelling ITHACA, under this face. The walking of the poem lives elsewhere. Here we name the face and add the letters.

Same word. Different machines.

ITHACA

English ordinal

MODERN

I9
T20
H8
A1
C3
A1

9 + 20 + 8 + 1 + 3 + 1

42

English reduction

MODERN

I9
T2
H8
A1
C3
A1

9 + 2 + 8 + 1 + 3 + 1

24

The frames match on purpose. Neither result is dressed as the interesting one. A total without a face is a smear.

The Odyssey did not encode English ordinal values.

Notes

  1. Engine v1.0.0. I 9 + T 20 + H 8 + A 1 + C 3 + A 1 = 42.
  2. Same face, other words. THE FIELD ordinal is 69. TEXAS ordinal is 69. FORTY TWO ordinal is 142.