gematria/README.md

Functions to calculate numeric value of text entered according to Jewish numerology

# Gematria

Functions to calculate numeric value of Hebrew text according to various
methods of Jewish numerology

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# Example

    > var Gematria = require('gematria');
    > var eretz = Gematria('ץרא');
    > eretz.toMisparGadol()
    1101

NB. Any input string is sanitized of all non-Hebrew characters.

# Methods

    var Gematria = require('gematria');

## Gematria#toMisparGadol()

Returns the value counting the _sofit_ (final form) characters with 
values assigned from 500 to 900.

## Gematria#toMisparHaPanim()

Returns the absolute numerical value (or _face value_) of each of the 22
letters of the otiyot (_Hebrew letters_).

## Gematria#toMisparHechrachi() 

Another name for the _mispar hapanim_ method and, as such, is an alias of
it within the API.

## Gematria#toMisparSiduri()

Return the numerical value using each letters ordinal value (ie. from 1
to 22).

# Install

With [npm](http://npmjs.org) do:

```
npm install gematria
```

# License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Akiva Levy <akiva@sixthirteen.co>

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