scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> Another thing I just remembered about Japanese numbers is that they are 
> grouped in 10000's rather than 1000's, so they have a word for 1e4, 1e8 etc 
> rather than 1e3, 1e6 like we do.  It makes reading out numbers quite 
> difficult for people used to the 1e3 system, especially given that because 
> of their currency prices typically are quite big numbers.

  And let's not talk about the traditional Japanese years (used eg. in
currency)...

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                                                          - Warp

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