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.
Agreed, the grouping of large numbers in East Asian cultures is indeed based on powers of 10,000, which could explain the choice of 100,000,000 satoshis per BTC.
Or maybe it was influenced by...
Very interesting thought.
"All things are ten thousand things indeed"
- Lao Tzu (based)
1,0000,0000 satoshis
They could have just been influenced as a traveling observer too. Either way it’s a good observation/interesting theory.
Interesting. I didn't know that.
1 lakh = एक लाख = 1,00,000
1 crore = एक करोड़= 1,00,00,000
👆 Indian number system
"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."
......Sino origin number system has a further measure, and unique word, at 1亿 = 100,000,000. Given Korean is sino based I assume also in Korea 100 million is named similarly...... 1억 (?)
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Traditional Chinese written as 1億 = 100 million
Japanese oku / おく= 1億 = 100 million
Or 10 crore ;)
100,000 is Muôn in Việtnam . So, 100,000,000 is 1k muôn
1 bitcoin is 1k muôn satoshi 🫡🇻🇳
That's interesting Jimmy. Why did Satoshi write like someone from the UK though?
And here I was thinking that he was American because it was bizarre number with no correlation to anything!
It could be correlated to something very symbolic, but I'm hesitant to just say what it is. When I figured it out, it was an amazing, revelatory moment, and I just wouldn't want to rob anyone of that.
Wow. I had never considered that.
linguistic shortcuts for numbers in mandarin also support this argument, 万 wàn is ten thousand, 亿 yì is 100 million
Yup. Japanese included.
10k = 1man
10k man = 1oku
=> 1BTC = 1oku sats
저는 한국어를 배우고 있어요
Maybe it was an elaborate strategy to cover his tracks.
