Comment by coldpie

Japanese uses different "groups" of powers of ten, maybe that tripped him up?

1; 10; 100; 1 x 1000; 10 x 1000

versus

1; 10; 100; 1000; 10000; 1 x 10000; 10 x 10000; 100 x 10000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals#Large_number...