Many languages have a specific word for this number: In English it is a myriad, in Ancient Greek μύριοι, in Aramaic ܪܒܘܬܐ, in Hebrew רבבה (revava), in Chinese 萬/万 (Mandarin wàn, Cantonese maan6), in Japanese 万/萬 [man], in Korean 万/만/萬 [man], and in Thai หมื่น [meun]. It is often used to mean an indefinite very large number.[1]
The Greek root was used in the earlier versions of the metric system in the form myria-.
The number can be written 10,000 (UK and USA), 10 000 (transition metric), or 10•000 (with the dot raised to the middle of the zeroes; metric).
In scientific notation, it is written as 104.
It is also written as 1 E+4 (or as 1 E4)
It is the square of 100
It is the square root of 100 000 000
A myriagon is a polygon with 10,000 sides.
10 km, 10,000 m, or 1 E+4 m is equal to:
6.2 miles
side of square with area 100 km²
radius of circle with area 314.159 km²
The classical Greeks used letters of the Greek alphabet to represent Greek numerals: they used a capital letter mu (Μ) to represent 10000, whose name in Greek is myriad.
1040000 = 1000010000 The value of a myriad to the power of itself, written (by the system of Apollonius of Perga) as a little M directly above a larger M.
In science
In anatomy, each neuron in the human brain is estimated to connect to 10,000 others.
In astronomy,
asteroid Number: 10000 Myriostos, Provisional Designation: 1951 SY, Discovery Date: September 30, 1951 by A. G. Wilson :List of asteroids (9001-10000)
In climate, Summary of 10,000 Years is one of several pages of the Climate Timeline Tool: Exploring Weather & Climate Change Through the Powers of 10 sponsored by the National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. [2]
In computers, NASA to build 10,000-processor Linux computer (it is actually a 10,240-processor) [3][4]
In geography,
Land of 10,000 Lakes is the nickname for the state of Minnesota.
Land of 10,000 Trails or 10000trails.com was originally created in 1999 by the TN/KY Lakes Area Coalition. This organization is made up of individuals in West Tennessee and West Kentucky, who have an interest in seeing tourism grow by developing trails throughout their region. [1]
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge is situated in the lower end of the Fakahatchee and Picayune Strands of Big Cypress Swamp and west of Everglades National Park in Florida. [2]
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska
There is no ZIP Code 10000 in the USA, however ZIP Code 10001 to 10292 is New York City
In geology, a list of Largest Volcanic Eruptions in the Last 10,000 Years [3]
In physics,
Myria is an obsolete prefix that denoted a factor of 10+4, ten thousand, or 10,000.
Myrio is an obsolete prefix that denoted a factor of 10−4 or one ten-thousandth).
10,000 hertz, 10 kilohertz, or 10 kHz of the radio frequency spectrum falls in the very low frequency or VLF band and has a wavelength of 30 kilometres.
In orders of magnitude (speed), the speed of a fast neutron is 10,000 km/s
In orders of magnitude (volume), the volume of 10,000 cubic kilometres or 10,000 km³ equals 1 × 1013 m³. Lake Superior contains 12,232 cubic kilometres (km³) or 2,935 cubic miles of water.
In scientific units,
10,000 square metres is one hectare
In zoology, there are approximately 10,000 species of birds
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