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Chinese has single words for 100, 1000, 10000, 100000000. In english we have single words for, 100, 1000, 1000000, 1000000000. Indians have a word for 1000000
by jcampbell1 12y ago
Chinese has single words for 100, 1000, 10000, 100000000.
In english we have single words for, 100, 1000, 1000000, 1000000000.
Indians have a word for 1000000. The commas just serve to make a numbers more readable, thus in chinese there are 4 digits between the commas.
It is hard to argue that one system is better than another, but English has the nice property that 2^10 ~= thousand, 2^20 ~= million, 2^30 ~= billion, 2^40 ~= trillion. So i'd argue that English is superior in this respect. Chinese Big-to-Small for dates and many other things is vastly superior to English. Chinese date format is 2015-02-15, and address format is Country, Region, City,Street, number.