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Many natural languages have grouping at every three digits in a decimal number, but it's not universal. Like in English 10000 is ten thousand, there is no new
by planede 4y ago
Many natural languages have grouping at every three digits in a decimal number, but it's not universal.
Like in English 10000 is ten thousand, there is no new single word for it.
IMO most of it is momentum and convention, there is nothing inherently natural about grouping by every 3 digits.
- pezezin 4y agoTechnically there is a word for 10 000: "myriad". But nobody uses it like that anymore...