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Greek numerals in a c. 1100 Byzantine manuscript of Hero of Alexandria's Metrika. The first line contains the number "͵θϡϟϛ δʹ ϛʹ", i.e. "9,996 + 1 ⁄ 4 + 1 ⁄ 6". It features each of the special numeral symbols sampi (ϡ), koppa (ϟ), and stigma (ϛ) in their minuscule forms. Greek numerals are decimal, based on powers of 10
A skeleton key is a 万 能 钥 匙 ("myriad-use key"), [8] the emperor was the "lord of myriad chariots" (萬乘之主), [9] 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, [10] and ...
The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent-, from the original Latin, and those in -cent-, derived from centi-, etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .
Myriad – Order of magnitude name for 10,000; Non-standard positional numeral systems – any positional numeral system that uses a base or digit set differently from standard positional systems; Quipu – Andean record keeping system using knotted cords; Tally stick – Memory aid device
A Greek stadium had a length of 600 Greek feet, and each foot was 16 dactyls long, so there were 9,600 dactyls in a stadium. Archimedes rounded this number up to 10,000 (a myriad) to make calculations easier, again, noting that the resulting number will exceed the actual number of grains of sand.
The following table details the myriad, octad, Ancient Greek Archimedes's notation, Chinese myriad, Chinese long and -yllion names for powers of 10. There is also a Knuth-proposed system notation of numbers, named the -yllion system. [8] In this system, a new word is invented for every 2 n-th power of ten.
Names of the short scale have not been loaned but calqued into Greek, based on the native Greek word for million, εκατομμύριο ekatommyrio ("hundred-myriad", i.e. 100 × 10,000): δισεκατομμύριο disekatommyrio "bi+hundred-myriad" = 10 9 (short scale billion)
Distance marker on the Rhine: 36 (XXXVI) myriametres from Basel.Note that the stated distance is 360 km; comma is the decimal mark in Germany.. Myria-(symbol my) is a now obsolete decimal metric prefix denoting a factor of 10 4 (ten thousand).