Meaning
Full Reduction is the table of modern numerology. The alphabet is cut into rows of nine, so A, J and S are 1, B, K and T are 2, and so on to I and R, which are 9; nothing is larger than 9. In numerology the table gives the name numbers, the Expression from all the letters, the Soul Urge from the vowels, the Personality from the consonants. The gematria sites took the same table as one of their ciphers and called it Reduction. Our chart computes it from the same code as the Numerology chart, so the two always agree.
The school calls the table Pythagorean. No ancient source has Pythagoras or his followers give letters values, and the repeating 1 to 9 appears in print with the American numerologists of the early 20th century; the name is a tribute, not a pedigree.
How it is counted
GEMATRIA: G 7 + E 5 + M 4 + A 1 + T 2 + R 9 + I 9 + A 1 = 38; reduced to 11, then to 2. ALPHABET: A 1 + L 3 + P 7 + H 8 + A 1 + B 2 + E 5 + T 2 = 29; reduced to 11, then to 2.
Because each letter is at most 9, the totals stay small and their digital roots are the point; a name's Full Reduction total always has the same digital root as its English Ordinal total, since the two tables differ only by multiples of 9.
The Hebrew small count
The Hebrew tradition has a method that looks similar. Mispar Katan, the small count, takes each letter's standard value and drops its zeros, so yod (10), qof (100) and alef (1) are all 1. The resemblance is real and the history is not shared: Mispar Katan reduces a numeral alphabet, while Full Reduction cycles an alphabet that never was one.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Names on the popular sites
- "Reduction" or "Full Reduction" on Gematrinator sourced
- "Pythagorean"
- The numerology school's name for the table; no ancient source has Pythagoras value letters disputed
- Counterpart in Hebrew
- Mispar Katan, which also drops the tens and hundreds our construction
- Use in our charts
- The Numerology chart's Expression, Soul Urge and Personality numbers sourced
How the schools read it
- Modern numerology
- The table of Balliett, Jordan and Decoz, used for the name numbers.
- Gematrinator
- One of its "base four", with variants that keep K and V at 11 and 22.
- EsoTerrier
- A core cipher; the total matches the Numerology chart's Expression total.
Claims about it
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The 1 to 9 letter table goes back to Pythagoras and his school.
disputedWhat the record shows: No early source has Pythagoras or his followers value letters at all; the repeating table is first printed in American numerology at the start of the 20th century.
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Two words or names with the same value under this cipher are connected.
falseWhat the record shows: Equal values are what any table of this kind produces in quantity; the tradition reads them together as a way of interpreting a text.
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Totals under this cipher show that news events are planned by their numbers.
falseWhat the record shows: A search with dozens of ciphers and millions of phrases always finds a match; fact-checkers have shown it. Nothing on this site reads events, dates or news by number.
