theTrav wrote:What really annoys me is how people have ignored ten hundred and jumped straight to thousand, but then gone back on their orders of magnitude thing and stuck with ten thousand and hundreds of thousands before going to million.
one,two,three,four,five,six,seven,eight,nine,
ten (10),
hundred(100),
tenhundred(10 00),
thousand(1 00 00),
tenthousand(10 00 00),
tenhundredthousand(1 00 00 00),
million(10 00 00 00)
BRING BACK TEN HUNDRED DAMNIT!
I suggest a binary-like combinatorial system for designating orders of magnitude. If ten = 1, hundred = 2, thousand = 4, et cetera, then 100000 = 10^5 = 10^(1 + 4) = "ten thousand", and 1000 is, indeed, "ten hundred".
There only remains the slight problem of assigning numbers to the magnitudes below the first. :)