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aisan cultures do orders of 10 in groups of four instead of three.

so western is thousand, million, billion and so on, which are 10^3

east Asian is by 10^4, so the word for 10,000 is mahn in Korean, and 100,000 is 10 mahn and so on.

maybe the reason we have 100,000,000 sartoshis per BTC is because Satoshi was east Asian. 10^8 is much more natural in those cultures.

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Thursday 5∞ 1y ago

"All things are ten thousand things indeed"

- Lao Tzu (based)

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Thursday 5∞ 1y ago

nostr:npub1y80vm0yvp64cx6e8y0eetu4mhwt5muzrttgaj8a988xnx5q4kn2qlu87je it's an Ancient Chinese thing about how the world is composed by ten thousand things. "Tao Te Ching" is the book, although I'm probably butchering how it's spelled. Lovely work!

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