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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Roman numerals, in particular, are directly derived from the Etruscan number symbols: 𐌠 , 𐌑 , 𐌒 , 𐌣 , and 𐌟 for 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100 (they had more symbols for larger numbers, but it is unknown which symbol represents which number). As in the basic Roman system, the Etruscans wrote the symbols that added to the desired ...

  3. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    This is the minimum number of characters needed to encode a 32 bit number into 5 printable characters in a process similar to MIME-64 encoding, since 85 5 is only slightly bigger than 2 32. Such method is 6.7% more efficient than MIME-64 which encodes a 24 bit number into 4 printable characters. 89

  4. Numeral system - Wikipedia

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    Not all number systems can represent the same set of numbers; for example, Roman numerals cannot represent the number zero. Ideally, a numeral system will: Represent a useful set of numbers (e.g. all integers, or rational numbers) Give every number represented a unique representation (or at least a standard representation)

  5. 10,000 - Wikipedia

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    In Islamic history, 10,000 is the Number of besieging forces led by Muhammad's adversary, Abu Sufyan, during the Battle of the Trench. 10,000 is the number of Muhammad's soldiers during the conquest of Mecca. In language, the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese phrase live for ten thousand years was used to bless emperors in East Asia.

  6. 1000 (number) - Wikipedia

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    1061 = emirp, twin prime with 1063, number of prime numbers between 1000 and 10000 (or, ... 1666 = largest efficient pandigital number in Roman numerals ...

  7. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The naming procedure for large numbers is based on taking the number n occurring in 10 3n+3 (short scale) or 10 6n (long scale) and concatenating Latin roots for its units, tens, and hundreds place, together with the suffix -illion. In this way, numbers up to 10 3·999+3 = 10 3000 (short scale) or 10 6·999 = 10 5994 (long scale

  8. Myriad - Wikipedia

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    Because of this grouping into fours, higher orders of numbers are provided by the powers of 10,000 rather than 1,000: In China, 10,000 2 was 萬萬 in ancient texts but is now called ε„„ and sometimes written as 1,0000,0000; 10,000 3 is 1,0000,0000,0000 or ε…†; 10,000 4 is 1,0000,0000,0000,0000 or δΊ¬; and so on.

  9. Number - Wikipedia

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    A prime number, often shortened to just prime, is an integer greater than 1 that is not the product of two smaller positive integers. The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11. There is no such simple formula as for odd and even numbers to generate the prime numbers.