On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:40 PM, jis wrote: > It's only a pronunciation thing. Numeric calculations are the same as > in Europe.
Thanks Johan. That's what I thought because the price tag on the guitar I purchased in Ginza says "¥125,150" (I got it for ¥100,000 with the case though :) ). However, I didn't know if financial representation was different from general math. Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In Japanese it is: > 一 ichi 1 > 十 juu 10 > 百 hyaku 100 > 千 sen 1,000 > 万 man 10,000 > 十万 juuman 100,000 > 百万 hyakuman 1,000,000 > 千万 senman 10,000,000 > 億 ooku 100,000,000 > > Johan Simons > > On 16/04/2007, at 2:25 AM, Jim Wagner wrote: > >> From: >> http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/japanese/largenumber.html >> >> "The East Asian number system is based on ten thousand, which means >> multiplying ten thousand to a unit makes the next unit, while the >> European number system is based on one thousand, which means >> multiplying one thousand to a unit makes the next unit, for instance >> thousand times thousand is a million, and thousand times a million >> is a >> billion." >> >> Jim Wagner >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
