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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    In tarot, Roman numerals (with zero) are often used to denote the cards of the Major Arcana. In Ireland, Roman numerals were used until the late 1980s to indicate the month on postage Franking. In documents, Roman numerals are sometimes still used to indicate the month to avoid confusion over day/month/year or month/day/year formats.

  3. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number 10,000 is used to express an even larger approximate number, as in Hebrew רבבה r e vâvâh, [36] rendered into Greek as μυριάδες, and to English myriad. [37] Similar usage is found in the East Asian 萬 or 万 (lit. 10,000; pinyin: wàn), and the South Asian lakh (lit. 100,000). [38]

  4. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading.

  5. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    Roman numerals, the Brahmi and Chinese numerals for one through three (一 二 三), and rod numerals were derived from tally marks, as possibly was the ogham script. [7] Base 1 arithmetic notation system is a unary positional system similar to tally marks. It is rarely used as a practical base for counting due to its difficult readability.

  6. 10,000 - Wikipedia

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    Myria-(and myrio-) [15] [16] [17] is an obsolete metric prefix that denoted a factor of 10 +4, ten thousand, or 10,000. 10,000 hertz, 10 kilohertz, or 10 kHz of the radio frequency spectrum falls in the very low frequency or VLF band and has a wavelength of 30 kilometres. In orders of magnitude (speed), the speed of a fast neutron is 10000 km/s.

  7. Numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Numbers written in different numeral systems. A numeral system is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner.

  8. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The direction of numerals follows the writing system's direction. Writing is from left to right in Greek, Coptic, Ethiopic, Gothic, Armenian, Georgian, Glagolitic, and Cyrillic alphabetic numerals along with Shirakatsi's notation. Right-to-left writing is found in Hebrew and Syriac alphabetic numerals, Arabic abjad numerals, and Fez numerals.

  9. Template:Roman - Wikipedia

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    This template converts Arabic numerals (that is, 1, 2, 3, etc.) into Roman numerals (I, II, III etc.). It currently works for any whole number between 1 and 4999999. It currently works for any whole number between 1 and 4999999.