Evolution of Number Names in the Base 10 System

[Im_not_asian]

My first post here, so please humor me. I have found no one in my life who can explain this to me:

My question is about the base 10 number system. It arises from the rate at which new NAMES are attributed to numbers as they increase. To illustrate, please consider -

10 x 1 unit = 10. - This is significant as this is the point at which a new NAME is attributed to subsequent numbers (ie from units to tens)

10 x 10 = 100. (moving from tens to hundreds)

10 x 100 = 1000 (hundreds to thousands) - noting new names thus far have been attributed in accordance with multiples of 10

10 x 1000 = 10 000. - No new name..

Why this lack of continuity?
Why are new names given in accordance with multiples of 10 prior to reaching 1000, (or 10 000), and not after?

 

[CompuChip]

I think there is some sort of historical reason, these names being given in a time when there was no urgency to express numbers greater than, say, 1 000 (though actually, Archimedes had invented a scheme for writing down very large numbers, for a very specific purpose). Besides, it gets kind of complicated to speak about tentens, tententens, etc.

I think in general we prefer not to have names like thousand-x:
100: "tenten" is given a name: hundred
110, ...: can be expressed as hundred + ten
1000: could be called "tenhundred" but is for obscure reasons called thousand
1100, ...: can be expressed as thousand + hundred, although some languages (like Dutch ) also say "elevenhundred, twelvehundred, ..." instead of "one thousand one hundred, - two hundred, ..."
10 000: ten thousand
100 000: hundred thousand
1 000 000: thousand thousand -- eek, let's make a new name (million)
1 100 000: one million one thousand - that's fine
10 000 000: ten million, fine
100 000 000: hundred million, ok
1 000 000 000: thousand million, but we prefer milliard (or billion)
10 000 000 000: ten milliard/billion
100 000 000 000: hundred milliard / billion
1 000 000 000 000: thousand ... - no, let's give it a new name: billion (or trillion)
etc.

Note that some countries prefer to increment the "Latin" counter every 1 000 (million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, ...) while some do it every 1 000 000 (million, milliard; billion, billiard; trillion, ...)

 

[Im_not_asian]

agree