Originally Posted by Anna Banana

"Don't you just add together each letter in your name?" she suggested, raising her hand. "Both vowels and consonants?" That was important, because some numbers used just vowels, while others used just consonants. This one, she thought, used both vowels and consonants. As she lowered her hand, it occurred to her that she was actually understanding all the Arithmancy discussed in this lesson. After five years, it'd finally clicked for her. Assuming she had the right answer, that is. At least this had happened before OWLS and not afterward, too...

Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Possible future with Arithmancy...Kurumi actually hadn't ever considered that seriously now that she thought about it. Although, the brief curse breaking assignment that they had done a few terms back had sparked her interested a little. Not as much as creatures continued to do, but it was on the back burner as it were.

Jotting down some more notes and scribbling a few things in the margin of her paper. Kurumi looked up as Professor Hadley finished speaking. Character Number? That was just another way for saying your Expression Number or Destiny Number, right? Setting her quill down on the table, Kurumi raised her hand. "You find your Character Number by assigning the proper numerical values to each letter of your full name - the one on your birth certificate. Once you do that, you add the values of each name separately and then add and reduce the total of each of your names to a single digit root number." Kurumi was pretty sure that they had calculated this number in the past, not that first or second years would have been around for that lesson, but she thought she remembered it.

Then again, Kurumi's memory was doing weird things these days.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

The character number...Ella knew this one! She remembered calculating it in her first term. Raising her hand, the first year answered. "Professor, you find your character number by using your full name, the one given on your birth certificate, and you assign the correct number to each letter. Then you add them and eventually reduce down to one number, which will be your character number." Not the most eloquent answer even but Ella was glad she had remembered that much.

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva put up her hand, "Professor once you find the correct number for each letter of your first, middle, and last name. Once you find these numbers add your first name together, add your middle name, and add your last name. Get the sums of each of your names and then add those sums together to get your character number." Well she thought that was how you did it so she hoped she was right. She always got confused with all the formulas and the different ways to find them.