tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 21 19:29:39 1997
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Re: latlh Hov vISuch
[email protected] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-09-11 13:08:29 EDT, ter'eS writes:
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> << That is, 22,000 has to be {cha'netlh cha'SaD} and not *{cha'maH cha'SaD}.
> So, I wrote {wejmaH wa''uy'} above, but I don't mean "31 million" but "30
> counts
> of one million", i.e., "30 million". Any ideas? >>
>
> In Chinese the numbering system ends at "wan" meaning 10,000. Then, we say
> shi-wan (10 x 10,000) to mean 100,000; then bai-wan (100 x 10,000) to say
> 1,000,000; then qian-wan (1,000 x 10,000) to say 10,000,000; then wan-wan
> (10,000 x 10,000) to not only mean 100,000,000 but any number large enough to
> be termed "zillion".
>
> peHruS
Instead of having 3 powers of ten to get to the next level, Chinese (as
well as Japanese and Chinese) has 4 powers.
using American terms for billion, trillion, etc:
the usual term for 100 million in Chinese is yi (yih).
1 billion = shiyi (shyryih) 10 x 100 million.
and so on up to 100 billion=1,000 x 100 million.
a trillion=tiao (tyau)
tyau can go up to 1 quadrillion.
above 10 quadrillion then it gets complicated.