Talk:Myriad

message: Yi4 comes after wan4wan4wan4, so its 10x10,0003 Kr5t 21:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yi tone 4 is 10,000,000,000,000 

message: This system works until ten tens, which requires a new description, a hundred. One similarly names numbers less than 10,000 by counting the number of hundreds plus the rest, e.g., 1776 is seventeen hundred and seventy six.
I think we may need to distinguish between British, US and other forms of English here. In the UK we would certainly use "seventeen seventy-six" colloquially for the year (though this particular year is not quite so famous in the UK!!); however, for the number itself we would more likely say "one thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six". In fact, this latter form is sometimes even used for used for years, in very formal contexts: my degree certificate says, "one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine," for 1999, for example, whereas I know that formal documents in the US say things like "in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-nine".
There's also the matter of when to omit the "and" in US English (though this is getting off-topic) - in the UK we would always say "two hundred and six", "two thousand and six", etc, rather than "two hundred six", "two thousand six". In the US, "seventeen hundred and seventy six" seems to have an "and", while "two thousand six" usually does not. E.g. if you look at the signing of Presidential proclamations, there was an "and" in the 1990s, but not in 2001-2006 (though this might just be related to a change of President?!)
--Mtford 21:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "1776" in UK and US English 

message: As both was used before I came to the page and I obviously missed some when I tried to create uniformity, I have fixed that and now they all go with -tre. The -tre suffix is, I believe, the SI standard with '-ter' being an 'accepted alternative'. I did however go through the history of the page to find which type of spelling (British or American) was first introduced to the page and the earliest edit I saw that first gave us a meter or metre was by Gcapp1959 on 30th July 2005, which uses the -tre spellings. Narson 01:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct:  "metre" is the standard international spelling, as per the SI.  —DIV (194.193.146.160 (talk) 08:53, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  metre vs meter 

message: It seems to me that the concept of variety or diversity is often associated with the word, as well as the concept of a large quantity.  Merriam Webster online lists such a meaning "both numerous and diverse" (as an adjective). However, this meaning is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article. The article also (to me) seems to over-emphasize the use of the word as a noun. Its use as an adjective is mentioned, but its use as a noun seems to get undue weight. Personally, I think I have seen it used more often as an adjective than as a noun. —131.107.0.72 (talk) 19:51, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concept of diversity and use as adjective 

message: The article currently has:
"lower case letters did not exist in Ancient Greece [...] for example "
in which the superscripted numerals are rendered in lowercase by the  template.  This seems quite inconsistent!!
—DIV (194.193.146.160 (talk) 08:57, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uppercase/Lowercase 

message: What meaning of number is used here? It might be confused with the term numeral by readers --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:07, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  is technically the number ten thousand