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10000 (ten thousand) is the natural number
following 9999
and preceding 10001.
Name
Many languages have a specific word for this number: In English it is
a myriad, in Ancient Greek μύριοι, in Aramaic ܪܒܘܬܐ, in Hebrew רבבה (revava), in Chinese 萬/万 (Mandarin wàn, Cantonese maan6), in Japanese
万/萬 [man], in Korean 万/만/萬 [man], and in Thai หมื่น [meun]. It is often used to
mean an indefinite very large number.[1]
The Greek root was used in the earlier versions of the metric system in
the form myria-.
The number can be written 10,000 (UK and USA), 10 000
(transition metric), or 10•000 (with the dot raised to the middle
of the zeroes; metric).
In
mathematics
In
science
- In anatomy, each neuron in the human brain is estimated to connect to
10,000 others.
- In astronomy,
- In climate,
Summary of 10,000 Years is one of several pages of
the Climate Timeline Tool: Exploring Weather & Climate Change
Through the Powers of 10 sponsored by the National Climatic Data
Center of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration.[2]
- In computers, NASA to build
10,000-processor Linux
computer (it is actually a 10,240-processor) [3][4]
- In geography,
- In geology, a list of
Largest Volcanic
Eruptions in the Last 10,000 Years [3]
- In physics,
- Myria is
an obsolete prefix that
denoted a factor of 10+4, ten
thousand, or 10,000.
- Myrio is
an obsolete prefix that
denoted a factor of 10−4 or one
ten-thousandth).
- 10,000 hertz, 10 kilohertz, or 10 kHz
of the radio
frequency spectrum falls in the very low frequency or VLF band and
has a wavelength of 30
kilometres.
- In orders of magnitude
(speed), the speed of a fast
neutron is 10,000 km/s
- In orders of magnitude
(volume), the volume of
10,000 cubic kilometres or 10,000 km³
equals 1 × 1013 m³. Lake Superior contains 12,232 cubic
kilometres (km³) or 2,935 cubic miles of water.
- In scientific units,
- 10,000 square metres is one hectare
- In zoology, there are
approximately 10,000 species of birds.
In time
10,000 days can be expressed in these alternative units:
- 864,000,000 seconds
- 14,400,000 minutes
- 240,000 hours
- 1428 weeks (rounded down)
In other
fields
- In art,
- In computer software,
- the Year 10,000 problem is the
collective name for all potential software bugs that will emerge as
the need to express years with five digits arises.
- In currency,
- In films,
- In finance, on March 29,
1999 the Dow Jones Industrial
Average closed at 10,006.78 which was the first time the index
closed above the 10,000 mark.
- In futurology, Stewart Brand in
Visions of the Future: The 10,000-Year Library proposes a
museum built around a 10,000 year clock as an idea for assuring
that vital information survives future crashes of civilizations. [6]
- In games,
- In game shows,
The $10,000 Pyramid ran on television from 1973 to 1974
- In history,
- Army of 10,000 Sixty Day Troops, 1862–1863. American
Civil War [8]
- The Army of the
Ten Thousand were a group of Ancient Greek mercenaries who marched
against the Persian Shah Artaxerxes II.
- The Goddess can appear
as the Lady of the Ten Thousand Names, as did Isis who was called Isis of Ten
Thousand Names
- the Persian Immortals were also called the
Ten Thousand or 10,000 Immortals, so named
because their number of 10,000 was immediately re-established after
every loss.
- The 10,000 Day War: Vietnam by Michael MacLear ISBN
0-312-79094-5 also alternate titles The ten thousand day
war : Vietnam, 1945–1975 (10,000 days is 27.4 years)
- Tomb of Ten Thousand Soldiers – defeat of the Tang Dynasty army of
China in the Nanzhao kingdom
in 751
- In language,
- In literature,
- Man'yōshū (万葉集 Man'yōshū,
Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) is the oldest existing,
and most highly revered, collection of Japanese poetry
- Ten Thousand a Year 1839 by Samuel Warren
- Ten Thousand a Year 1883?. A Drama, in three acts. Adapted from
the celebrated novel of the same name, by the author of the
Diary of a Physician, and arranged for the stage, by
Richard Brinsley Peake [9]
- Anabasis, by the Greek writer
Xenophon (431–360 B.C.), about the Army of the Ten Thousand - Greek
mercenaries taking part in the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a
Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II
- The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece by Michael
Curtis Ford. 2001. ISBN 0-312-26946-3 Historic fiction about
the Army of the
Ten Thousand
- The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980–1990
by Charles Wright ISBN 0-374-29293-0
ISBN 0-374-52326-6
- Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel ISBN 0-06-056562-4
- In music,
- In philosophy, Lao Zi writes
about ten thousand things in the Tao Te Ching In Zen Buddhism, the "10,000 Things" is a term
meaning all of phenomenal reality. [14]
- In psychology,
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical,
by Miller, Gustavus Hindman (1857–1929). Project
Gutenberg[5]
- In religion,
- In sports,
- In athletics, 10,000 metres, 10
kilometres, 10 km, or 10K (6.2 miles)
is the final standard track event in a long-distance track event and
a distance in other racing
events such as running, cycling and skiing.
- In bicycle
racing, annual Tour of 10,000 Lakes Stage Race in Minneapolis, Minnesota [18]
- In baseball, on July
15, 2007 the Philadelphia Phillies became the
first team in professional sports' history to lose 10,000
games.
Selected
5-digit numbers (10001 – 19999)
See also
References
- ^
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad
(Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary)
- ^
Climate Timeline Information
Tool
- ^
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/28/HNnasalinux_1.html
news
- ^
NASA Project:
Columbia
- ^
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/926 : Ten
Thousand Dreams Interpreted
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