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Searching for the Word for 100,000,000: Googleplex & Beyond
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[QUOTE="TeethWhitener, post: 6541526, member: 511972"] In Chinese, the traditional power of ten groupings are by ##10^4## instead of the Western system of ##10^3##. So you have 十 = 10 百 = 100 千 = 1 000 万= 10 000 And then it repeats: 十万 = 100 000 (ten ten-thousands) 百万 = 1 000 000 (one hundred ten-thousands) 千万 = 10 000 000 (one thousand ten-thousands) 亿 = 100 000 000 They match up at ##10^{3\times4}##, or a trillion, which is 万亿. Edit: If you want a word for 100 000 000 specifically, 亿 is yì, (which ironically, is a near homophone of the Chinese word for one: yī). [/QUOTE]
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