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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 22:30:48 +0300
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 20:53:45 +0300
Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:39:14 +0200
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
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> > On 08/04/2025 12:54, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote: =20
> > > On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:29:13 +0200
> > > David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:   =20
> > >> On 07/04/2025 21:29, Richard Heathfield wrote:   =20
> > >>>> Is not it "20 milliards" in British English?   =20
> > >>>
> > >>> Yes. The British use   =20
> > >=20
> > > No we don't.
> > >    =20
> > >>>
> > >>> 1 - one
> > >>> 10 - ten
> > >>> 100 - hundred
> > >>> 1 000 - thousand
> > >>> 10 000 - myriad
> > >>> 100 000 - pool
> > >>> 1 000 000 - million
> > >>> 1 000 000 000 - milliard   =20
> > >=20
> > > Is this a late april fool?
> > >=20
> > > Absolutely no one in britain says myriad for 10K , pool (wtf?) for
> > > 100K or milliard apart from maybe history of science professor and
> > > you'd probably be hard pressed to find many people who'd even
> > > heard of them in that context. The only reason I knew milliard is
> > > because I can speak (sort of) french and thats the french billion.
> > >    =20
> >=20
> > "myriad" means 10,000, coming directly from the Greek.  But the word
> > is usually used to mean "a great many" or "more than you can count".
> > (It's like the use of "40" in the Bible - I guess the ancient Greeks
> > were better at counting than the ancient Canaanites.)
> >  =20
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> In the Bible?
> Or, may be, in imprecise translations of the Bible that confuse the=20
> word =D7=A8=D7=91=D7=91=D7=94 that means 10000 with remotely similar word=
 =D7=90=D7=A8=D7=91=D7=A2=D7=99=D7=9D that
> means 40 ?
>=20

I looked at translation of the first appearance of the word =D7=A8=D7=91=D7=
=91=D7=94 in KJB.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-24-60/
It is translated as million. I.e. incorrect, but in other direction.





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