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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 15:16:41 +0200
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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 רבבה that means 10000 with remotely similar word ארבעים 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.