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Typically, Ilocanos use native numbers for one through 10, and Spanish numbers for amounts of 10 and higher. Specific time is told using the Spanish system and numbers for hours and minutes, for example, Alas dos/A las dos (2 o'clock). For dates, cardinal Spanish numbers are the norm; for example, 12 (dose) ti Julio/Hulio (the twelfth of July).
The native system is mostly used for counting small numbers, basic measurement, and for other pre-existing native concepts that deals with numbers. Meanwhile, the Spanish-derived system is mainly used for concepts that only existed post-colonially such as counting large numbers, currency, solar time, and advanced mathematics.
'five-hundred men battalions' quīngēnārius thōrāx (Pliny the Elder) 'a five-hundred pound suit of body armour' quīngēnāria poena 'a five-hundred as penalty' (an as was a bronze coin) They can also be used for specifying age: exhērēdāta ab octōgēnāriō patre (Pliny the Younger) [11] 'disinherited by her 80-year-old father'
100 Primarily denotes one hundred years, but occasionally used, especially in the context of competitive racing, to refer to something consisting of one hundred, as in a 100-mile race. Dozen: 12 A collection of twelve things or units from Old French dozaine "a dozen, a number of twelve" in various usages, from doze (12c.) [2] Baker's dozen: 13
For powers of ten less than 9 (one, ten, hundred, thousand and million) the short and long scales are identical, but for larger powers of ten, the two systems differ in confusing ways. For identical names, the long scale grows by multiples of one million (10 6 ), whereas the short scale grows by multiples of one thousand (10 3 ).
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These words cannot modify a noun without being preceded by an article or numeral (*hundred dogs played in the park), and so are nouns. In East Asia, the higher units are hundred, thousand, myriad 10 4, and powers of myriad. In the Indian subcontinent, they are hundred, thousand, lakh 10 5, crore 10 7, and so on.
The Ancient Greeks used a system based on the myriad, that is, ten thousand, and their largest named number was a myriad myriad, or one hundred million. In The Sand Reckoner , Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) devised a system of naming large numbers reaching up to