Another interesting one is how Japan counts big numbers. There’s a word/character for 10,000 (万 man) and large numbers are multiples of that. So a million is 100x10,000 for instance.
Large numbers aren’t all multiples of 万 (i mean, everything is a multiple of something), Japan just uses the long scale myriad (ie 4 zeros to the comma). So you have 10 man, 100 man, 1000 man, and after that is oku, cho, etc, all of which go to 1000 before the next number word.
Another interesting one is how Japan counts big numbers. There’s a word/character for 10,000 (万 man) and large numbers are multiples of that. So a million is 100x10,000 for instance.
Large numbers aren’t all multiples of 万 (i mean, everything is a multiple of something), Japan just uses
the long scalemyriad (ie 4 zeros to the comma). So you have 10 man, 100 man, 1000 man, and after that is oku, cho, etc, all of which go to 1000 before the next number word.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad
ed: long scale is apparently different from 4 zeros to the comma