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Comment by quartesixte

Ah the Myriad system. Curious how the sinosphere adopted this alongside the Greeks.

These do converge I think at

10^12 = Short Trillion/Long Billion

Which makes for some non-frictionless translating since 10^6 and 10^9 are all in-between words, and 10^12 is not a commonly used number to count anything in everyday life.

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