And in East Asia, we use a system based on exponents of 10000. I kind of like it, except when I have to think about it and the short/long scales at the same time.
Ah the Myriad system. Curious how the sinosphere adopted this alongside the Greeks.
These do converge I think at
10^12 = Short Trillion/Long Billion
Which makes for some non-frictionless translating since 10^6 and 10^9 are all in-between words, and 10^12 is not a commonly used number to count anything in everyday life.
10000^1 = 万 10000^2 = 億 10000^3 = 兆 10000^4 = 京