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Well keep in mind East Asian languages count in ten thousands while Western European languages count in thousands. What I mean is where English goes one - ten - hundred - thousand and then resets to one thousand - ten thousand - hundred thousand etc. etc., East Asian languages go 一 (1) - 十 (10) - 百(100) - 千 (1,000) - 万 (10,000) - and then resets to 一万 (10,000) - 十万 (100,000) - 百万 (1,000,000) and so forth. I definitely know people that have just moved that have confused thousand and ten thousand simply because the numbers are counted differently in Asian languages compared to English.
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