236 CHAPTER 5. COUNTERS AND COUNTING
Again, unless the factor 1 needs to be stressed, rather than
is used. And again, there is no ”ten thousand”, there is the counter
instead.
- 10000 (Ten thousand)
The highest ”low order” order counter, stands for ten thousand. Be-
cause it is the highest ”low order” order counter, it is used in combination
with 10, 100 and 1000 in to indicate a hundred thousand, a million and ten
million respectively. 100 million is a new counter,
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( )- 100000000 (A hundred million)
The biggest ”useful” number, is still a realistically large number in for
instance prices for houses, luxury yachts or fancy sports cars. The pronun-
ciation is wholly unremarkable:
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