How well do people who count in myriads or in das, hajar, lakh, karod,
abaj, and sankh handle the power-of-thousand prefixes of the metric system?
Since early 1980's I attempted to correct THIS situation and drew attention
of scholars to for keeping a count of large small 'numbers' via my book:
Towards A Unified Technology (1982), see:
http://www.brijvij.com/IndoEuropean_UDN.doc
This gives a means to tie *Asian Lakh with Western Million* urging the next
multiple/sub-multiple after THOUSAND be 10^5, retaining the existing names
of *million, billion, trillion...etc.*
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Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:37285] People who count in myriads or lakhs
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:44:16 -0400
There are four ways of naming the powers of ten in use:
1. Have names for the powers up to the third, and for powers of a thousand.
2. Have names for the powers up to the fourth, and for powers of a myriad.
3. Have names for the powers up to the sixth, and for powers of a million.
4. Have names for odd powers and for the second.
The first is used in English, the second in East Asian languages (Greek
used
to, but now, I think, uses the first), the third in Malagasy (but not its
relative Indonesian - maybe they borrowed it from Shikomor, not that I know
any Shikomor), and the fourth in Hindi, Gujarati, and other Indic
languages.
How well do people who count in myriads or in das, hajar, lakh, karod,
abaj,
and sankh handle the power-of-thousand prefixes of the metric system?
Pierre
