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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by kps on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:59PM (#20802629)
‘Myriad’, via Greek¹. (Apparently though, ‘myria‐’ was a pre-SI metric prefix for ×10000⏨, so I'm afraid someone will come along and insist on ‘myribi‐’, and I'll have to smack them.)

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000#Name

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by dragontamer on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:33PM (#20802919)
Interesting.

Myriad shares similarities to "Million". So maybe Myriad / Biriad / Trilliad / Quadrilliad will scale into the higher orders.

Hmm, maybe I'll make this a thing.

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Re:Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (1968) by roywiggins on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:44PM (#20803561)
Not to be confused with the long-scale numbers: milliard/billiard/trilliard
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