It's only a pronunciation thing. Numeric calculations are the same as in Europe.
In Japanese it is: 一 ichi 1 十 juu 10 百 hyaku 100 千 sen 1,000 万 man 10,000 十万 juuman 100,000 百万 hyakuman 1,000,000 千万 senman 10,000,000 億 ooku 100,000,000 Johan Simons On 16/04/2007, at 2:25 AM, Jim Wagner wrote: > From: > http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/japanese/largenumber.html > > "The East Asian number system is based on ten thousand, which means > multiplying ten thousand to a unit makes the next unit, while the > European number system is based on one thousand, which means > multiplying one thousand to a unit makes the next unit, for instance > thousand times thousand is a million, and thousand times a million > is a > billion." > > Jim Wagner > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
