Re: "The" and possessives

Hi!

"Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...> writes:
> I can only speak for Chinese and Japanese, where it's:
>
> ten (shi2)
> hundred (bai3)
> thousand (qian1)
> ten thousand (wan4)
...
> ten thousand ten thousand (yi4) (100 million, reference changes from
> "wan" to "yi")
> ten yi4 (a billion)
> when you get to 10,000 yi4, it's called a jing1 (a trillion)
> what you get at 10,000 jing4 pushes the knowledge of even the natives.
I never understood why Chinese people still don't put the dots every
*four* digits in Arabic numbers.  I was told it was still `1.000.000'
for `a million' were I'd expect `100.0000' (100=bai3, 10000=wan4).

Odd.

Tyl Sjok only has `ten' (and `sixteen', of course :-)).  A hundred is
`ten to the power of two' (kul il kjox = `two powers ten') etc.

**Henrik

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