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A skeleton key is a 万 能 钥 匙 ("myriad-use key"), [9] the emperor was the "lord of myriad chariots" (萬乘之主), [10] the Great Wall is called 万 里 长 城 ("Myriad-mile Long Wall"), Zhu Xi's statement 月 映 万 川 ("the moon reflects in myriad rivers") had the sense of supporting greater empiricism in Chinese philosophy, [11 ...
Mount Song, the location where the phrase "Ten thousand years" was coined. In Chinese, ten thousand or "myriad" is the largest numerical order of magnitude in common usage, and is used ubiquitously as a synonym for "indefinitely large number".
I don't agree. The word "Myriad" should be used in exactly the same way as the word "thousand", and similarly, "myriads" as "thousands". Or as "million"; for a myriad is the unit of 10,000, that lies between those two. As for the preceding word, that depends solely on whether the "myriad(s)" is singular or plural.
President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of executions. ... but without implicating the myriad issues associated ...
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 Mesoamerican system , still used to some extent in Mayan languages , was based on powers of 20: bak’ 400 (20 2 ), pik 8000 (20 3 ), kalab 160,000 (20 4 ), etc.
The number system in use at that time could express numbers up to a myriad (μυριάς — 10,000), and by utilizing the word myriad itself, one can immediately extend this to naming all numbers up to a myriad myriads (10 8). [3] Archimedes called the numbers up to 10 8 "first order" and called 10 8 itself the "unit of the second order".
Myriad CIWS, a close-in weapon system; Myriad Convention Center, now Cox Convention Center, in Oklahoma City, U.S. Myriad Genetics, an American molecular diagnostic company; Myriad Islands, in Antarctica; Myriad Pictures, an American entertainment company; Myriad year clock, a universal clock; Myriad Games, publisher of the video game Caltron 6 ...
A mother of five who went to prison for drug charges — and recently was pardoned by President Joe Biden — is using her experience to help others. Now, Doyle, 47, tells PEOPLE, "I never thought ...