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Everything ok Denmark and France? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Another interesting one is how Japan counts big numbers. There's a word/character for 10,000 (δΈ‡ man) and large numbers are multiples of that. So a million is 100x10,000 for instance.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Large numbers aren't all multiples of δΈ‡ (i mean, everything is a multiple of something), Japan just uses the long scale myriad (ie 4 zeros to the comma). So you have 10 man, 100 man, 1000 man, and after that is oku, cho, etc, all of which go to 1000 before the next number word.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad

    ed: long scale is apparently different from 4 zeros to the comma

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