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‘Myriad’, via Greek¹. (Apparently though, ‘myria‐’ was a pre-SI metric prefix for ×10000⏨, so I'm afraid someone will come along and insist on ‘myribi‐’, and I'
by kps 7y ago
‘Myriad’, via Greek¹. (Apparently though, ‘myria‐’ was a pre-SI metric prefix for ×10000⏨, so I'm afraid someone will come along and insist on ‘myribi‐’, and I'll have to smack them.)
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name
- dragontamer 7y agoInteresting. Myriad shares similarities to "Million". So maybe Myriad / Biriad / Trilliad / Quadrilliad will scale into the higher orders. Hmm, maybe I'll make this a thing.
- roywiggins 7y agoNot to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard