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PhoenixRising 
Smiling at the Hufflepuff first year, Fina shook her head. "Not particularly. The number system that we'll be using for pretty much most of your Arithmancy careers, unless otherwise stated or you delve further into Numerological studies would be the Pythagorean Number System. This is found in Chapter Two of your textbooks," Hadley informed them, waiting for those who wished to do so to turn to that appropriate page. "Using the chart listed, you'll assign each letter in the word the number. Add up all the numbers in the word together, but in most cases where we reduce to a single digit, with Paragrams, you're NOT going to reduce."
Hmm, perhaps they ought to practice with simple words for a bit. "Okay, so take a few moments to practice this by taking five words synonymous with who you are and translating them to a number equivalent, as I did with my last name, Hadley." Peyton beamed when it was time to get working. She smoothed her already smooth parchment and dipped her quill into some ink and began writing...
SPOILER!!: Peyton's Parchment Task #1
Peyton Baltazar
Arithmancy
B A L T A Z A R
2+1+3+1+8+1+9= 25
R E D
9+5+4= 28
B U N N I E S
2+3+5+5+9+5+1= 30
L I T T L E
3+9+2+2+3+5= 24
Q U I D D I T C H
8+3+9+4+4+9+2+3+8= 50
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PhoenixRising Turning her attention back to the whole class; "Feel free to continue to work on your calculations for a little bit longer and if you feel up to it, then you may jump ahead to the next piece in writing a paragram," she paused, letting this sink in. Because they honestly didn't think that one word characteristics with NO meaning whatsoever would be considered one, right? "Which would be translating whole sentences into number values. And to do this, you must add together the values from each word to get a final value for that sentence. Again, remember, do not reduce." She reiterated the last bit sternly, once more, because she knew she always emphasized the reduction in any previous calculation they've done for Arithmancy. This was different.
Once the girl finished with the first set of numbers she awaited for instructions. She was totally psyched with how much she enjoyed adding numbers...lots of them. When she heard Professor Hadley saying that they could go on and do the same but with a sentence, Peyton smiled and began writing...
SPOILER!!: Peyton's Parchment Task #1&2
Peyton Baltazar
Arithmancy
B A L T A Z A R
2+1+3+1+8+1+9= 25
R E D
9+5+4= 28
B U N N I E S
2+3+5+5+9+5+1= 30
L I T T L E
3+9+2+2+3+5= 24
Q U I D D I T C H
8+3+9+4+4+9+2+3+8= 50
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2nd Task
Sentence: Peyton ca live eating ice cream forever!
P E Y T O N
7+5+7+2+6+5= 32
C A N
3+1+5= 9
L I V E
3+9+4+5= 21
E A T I N G
5+1+2+9+5+7= 29
I C E
9+3+5= 17
C R E A M
3+9+5+1+4= 22
F O R E V E R
6+6+9+5+4+5+9= 44
32+9+21+29+17+22+44= 174
Placing her quill down, Peyton re-added everything silently to herself to check if she was correct.