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Cistercian Numbers

Convert between decimal numbers and medieval Cistercian monastic numerals.

Medieval Cistercian monks recorded any number from 0 to 9999 in a single glyph built around one vertical stem. The number is split into units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, and each digit places a stroke in its own quadrant: units top-right, tens top-left, hundreds bottom-right, and thousands bottom-left. Enter a number to draw its glyph, or type the four positional digits to read one back. See more at Wikipedia.