Silvia was excited for Arithmancy class; it sounded so fun. She had already read up a little on the subject before school had started, and it was one of several classes that she had been looking forward to most.

She raised her hand, "The first is called Pythagorean method, and it assigns numbers one through nine to each letter. The other is Chald-something...oh yes, Chaldean method, I think, and it doesn't use the number nine."