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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:17:17 -0700
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 15:16:41 +0200
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>
>> On 08/04/2025 19:53, Michael S wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:39:14 +0200
>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/04/2025 12:54, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 10:29:13 +0200
>>>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/04/2025 21:29, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is not it "20 milliards" in British English?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes.  The British use
>>>>>
>>>>> No we don't.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1 - one
>>>>>>> 10 - ten
>>>>>>> 100 - hundred
>>>>>>> 1 000 - thousand
>>>>>>> 10 000 - myriad
>>>>>>> 100 000 - pool
>>>>>>> 1 000 000 - million
>>>>>>> 1 000 000 000 - milliard
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a late april fool?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> "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.)
>>>
>>> In the Bible?
>>> Or, may be, in imprecise translations of the Bible that confuse the
>>> word ???? that means 10000 with remotely similar word ?????? that
>>> means 40 ?
>>
>> No, I simply mean that the number 40 is used many times in the Bible
>> to mean "a large number", rather than for a specific number.
>
> Can you give me few example of use of number 40 in the meaning  "a
> large number"?
>
> The very first appearance of 40 as as individual number (rather than
> the part of 840) is in duration of the rain that caused flood (40 days
> and 40 nights).  I think, in this case it was meant literally.
> In drier parts of Mesopotamia even 40 minutes of intense rain can cause
> dangerous flood.  The same in Negev desert.  After 40 hours of intense
> continuous rain very serious flood in lower places is pretty much
> guaranteed.  So, in opinion of people that live in such areas, 40 days
> would be more than sufficient for The Flood of Noah.  The author of the
> text probably thought that he is overestimating a duration of the rain.

It is my fervent hope that everyone involved in this fascinating
discussion can find a more appropriate place to carry on the
conversation than comp.lang.c.