Re: CHAT: Measurements (was: Re: CHAT: browsers)
| From: | Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 17, 2003, 19:03 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
> kendra wrote:
> > How do systems that don't have zeros or use places (tens and
> > hundreds and stuff) write numbers?
>
> Depends on the language, but generally there are special characters for
> high numbers. For example, the Chinese/Japanese system is:
>
> Characters for 1-10
> Characters for 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000,000, 1,000,000,000, etc.
I presume you mean:
Characters for 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000,000, 1,000,000,000,000, etc.
Jean-François Colson
jfcolson (a) belgacom.net