Cistercian numerals in ASCII Art

So you want to convert any number to the Cistercian numerals in your terminal? Well, in that case please download my cisternum.pl Perl script to do it and enjoy how the monks from the XIII century used to write numbers!

$ perl cisternum.pl
Use: cisternum.pl [-h|-v] NUMBER ...
Converts numbers to Cistercian numerals represented in ASCII.

 NUMBER Number encoded using Arabic numerals from 0 to 9999
 -h     Uses the horizontal representation, the default
 -v     Uses the vertical representation instead of horizontal

$ perl cisternum.pl 2024 07 16
           _         _      
 _\____   |______    ______ 
  |  |              |       

$ perl cisternum.pl -v 2024 07 16
          _    _   
 _|/     | |    | |
  |      |      |  
 _|      |      |  
  |      |      |