The Myriametre was used in France in the 1840's. See http://home.fonline.de/fo0126/geschichte/groessen/mas10.htm.
This website is a collection of conversions found in a Bavarian school text-book dated 1842. The site is in German. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:44 AM Subject: [USMA:37285] People who count in myriads or lakhs > There are four ways of naming the powers of ten in use: > 1. Have names for the powers up to the third, and for powers of a thousand. > 2. Have names for the powers up to the fourth, and for powers of a myriad. > 3. Have names for the powers up to the sixth, and for powers of a million. > 4. Have names for odd powers and for the second. > The first is used in English, the second in East Asian languages (Greek used > to, but now, I think, uses the first), the third in Malagasy (but not its > relative Indonesian - maybe they borrowed it from Shikomor, not that I know > any Shikomor), and the fourth in Hindi, Gujarati, and other Indic languages. > How well do people who count in myriads or in das, hajar, lakh, karod, abaj, > and sankh handle the power-of-thousand prefixes of the metric system? > > Pierre >
