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Cardinal	10000
Ordinal	10000th (ten thousandth)
Numeral system	decamillesimal
Factorization
Roman numeral	X
Unicode symbol(s)	X, ↂ
Greek Prefix	myria- (obsolete)
Latin Prefix	decamilli-
Binary	N/A
Octal	234208
Duodecimal	595412
Hexadecimal	271016

10000 (ten thousand) is the natural number following 9999 and preceding 10001.

Name

See also: Orders of magnitude (numbers)

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 wan, 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 scientific notation, it is written as 10⁴.
• It is also written as 1 E+4 (or as 1 E4)
• It is the square of 100
• It is the square root of 100 000 000
• A myriagon is a polygon with 10,000 sides.
• 10 km, 10,000 m, or 1 E+4 m is equal to:
  • 6.2 miles
  • side of square with area 100 km²
  • radius of circle with area 314.159 km²
• The classical Greeks used letters of the Greek alphabet to represent Greek numerals: they used a capital letter mu (Μ) to represent 10000, whose name in Greek is myriad.
• 10⁴⁰⁰⁰⁰ = 10000¹⁰⁰⁰⁰ The value of a myriad to the power of itself, written (by the system of Apollonius of Perga) as a little M directly above a larger M.

In science

• In anatomy, each neuron in the human brain is estimated to connect to 10,000 others.
• In astronomy,
  • asteroid Number: 10000 Myriostos, Provisional Designation: 1951 SY, Discovery Date: September 30, 1951 by A. G. Wilson :List of asteroids (9001-10000)
• 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) ³⁴
• In geography,
  • Land of 10,000 Lakes is the nickname for the state of Minnesota.
  • Land of 10,000 Trails or 10000trails.com was originally created in 1999 by the TN/KY Lakes Area Coalition. This organization is made up of individuals in West Tennessee and West Kentucky, who have an interest in seeing tourism grow by developing trails throughout their region. [1]
  • Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge is situated in the lower end of the Fakahatchee and Picayune Strands of Big Cypress Swamp and west of Everglades National Park in Florida. [2]
  • Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska
  • There is no ZIP Code 10000 in the USA, however ZIP Code 10001 to 10292 is New York City
• 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 BC, 10,000 BCE, or 10th millennium BC
• 10,000-year clock or the Clock of the Long Now is a mechanical clock designed to keep time for 10,000 years.

In other fields

• In art,
  • Xenophon, on his Retreat with the Ten Thousand, first seeing the Sea, painting by Benjamin Haydon
• 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,
  • the new 10,000 Iraqi dinar banknote has Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (known as Alhazen to medieval scholars in the West) on the front and Hadba Minaret on the back. [4] The old bill had a picture of Saddam Hussein and Samarra: Spiral Minaret- Al-Mawiya [5]
  • the Japanese 10,000 yen banknote has a portrait of Fukuzawa Yukichi
  • the U.S. Ten Thousand Dollar Note has a picture of Salmon P. Chase.
• In films,
  • 10,000 B.C. (2008) Overview from IMDb
  • 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) (TV) Overview from IMDb
  • The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956) Overview from IMDb
  • Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (1980) (mini) Overview from IMDb
• 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,
  • each of the nine Mahjong character suit tiles (1 to 9) represents ten thousand (wan) coins, or one hundred strings of one hundred coins.
  • Ten Thousand Year Ko is a one of the rules of ko in the board game of Go [7]
  • Ten Thousand is one name of a dice game that is also called farkle.
• 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,
  • the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean phrase live for ten thousand years was used to bless emperors in East Asia.
  • the words in the Interlingua-English Dictionary are all drawn from 10000 roots.
  • Μύριοι is an Ancient Greek name for 10.000 taken into the modern European languages as 'myriad' (see above). Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have words with the same meaning.
• 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,
  • 10,000 Days is the title of the fourth studio album by Tool [10]
  • Ten Thousand Fists is an album by Disturbed. [11]
  • 10 000 Hz Legend album by Air 2001
  • 10,000 Maniacs is a US rock band.
  • 10,000 Men is a song by Bob Dylan [12]
  • Ten Thousand Men of Harvard is a fight song of Harvard University
  • 10,000 promises is a song by the Backstreet Boys [13]
  • 10,000 Promises. is a Japanese popular music group
  • Ten Thousand Strong is a song by American Power metal band, Iced Earth.
• 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 Gutenberg⁵
• In religion,
  • the Bible,
    • has 52 references to ten thousand in the King James Version.[15], [16]
    • Revelation 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; (KJV) The Apocalypse of John
  • hymn, Ten thousand times ten thousand [17]
  • The Ten thousand martyrs from The Catholic Encyclopedia
• 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)

• 10033 - a character from the fictional Vlog series Lonelygirl15
• 10201 - palindromic square (in the decimal system)
• 10206 - pentagonal pyramidal number
• 10223 - one of six remaining Seventeen or Bust numbers in the Sierpinski problem
• 10239 - Woodall number
• 10267 - cuban prime
• 10301 - palindromic prime (in the decimal system)
• 10333 - star prime
• 10416 - square pyramidal number
• 10425 - octahedral number
• 10430 - weird number
• 10501 - palindromic prime
• 10570 - weird number
• 10585 - Carmichael number
• 10601 - palindromic prime
• 10609 - tribonacci number
• 10646 - ISO 10646 is the standard for Unicode
• 10660 - tetrahedral number
• 10671 - tetranacci number
• 10744 - amicable number with 10856
• 10752 - the second 16-bit word of a TIFF file if the byte order marker is misunderstood
• 10792 - weird number
• 10800 - number of bricks used for the uttaravedi in the Agnicayana ritual
• 10837 - star prime
• 10856 - amicable number with 10744
• 10905 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
• 10946 - Fibonacci number, Markov number
• 10989 - reverses when multiplied by 9
• 10990 - weird number
• 11025 - sum of the cubes of the first 14 positive integers
• 11311 - palindromic prime
• 11368 - pentagonal pyramidal number
• 11410 - weird number
• 11411 - palindromic prime
• 11440 - square pyramidal number
• 11480 - tetrahedral number
• 11605 - smallest integer to start a run of five consecutive integers with the same number of divisors
• 11690 - weird number
• 11719 - cuban prime
• 11726 - octahedral number
• 12097 - cuban prime
• 12110 - weird number
• 12198 - semi-meandric number
• 12285 - amicable number with 14595
• 12287 - Thabit number
• 12321 - palindromic square
• 12341 - tetrahedral number
• 12421 - palindromic prime
• 12529 - square pyramidal number
• 12530 - weird number
• 12670 - weird number
• 12721 - palindromic prime
• 12726 - Ruth-Aaron number
• 12758 - largest number that cannot be expressed as the sum of distinct cubes
• 12765 - Finnish internet meme; the code accompanying no-prize caps in a Coca-Cola bottle top prize contest. Often spelled out yksi - kaksi - seitsemän - kuusi - viisi, ei voittoa, "one - two - seven - six - five, no prize").
• 12821 - palindromic prime
• 13244 - tetrahedral number
• 13267 - cuban prime
• 13131 - octahedral number
• 13331 - palindromic prime
• 13370 - weird number
• 13510 - weird number
• 13669 - cuban prime
• 13685 - square pyramidal number
• 13790 - weird number
• 13820 - meandric number, open meandric number
• 13831 - palindromic prime
• 13860 - Pell number
• 13930 - weird number
• 13931 - palindromic prime
• 13950 - pentagonal pyramidal number
• 14190 - tetrahedral number
• 14200 - number of n-Queens Problem solutions for n = 12,
• 14341 - palindromic prime
• 14400 - sum of the cubes of the first 15 positive integers
• 14641 - palindromic square
• 14644 - octahedral number
• 14701 - Markov number
• 14741 - palindromic prime
• 14770 - weird number
• 14595 - amicable number with 12285
• 14910 - square pyramidal number
• 14976 - chiliagonal number
• 15180 - tetrahedral number
• 15376 - pentagonal pyramidal number
• 15387 - Zeisel number
• 15451 - palindromic prime
• 15511 - Motzkin number
• 15551 - palindromic prime
• 15610 - weird number
• 15625 - 5⁶
• 15841 - Carmichael number
• 15890 - weird number
• 16030 - weird number
• 16061 - palindromic prime
• 16091 - strobogrammatic prime
• 16127 - Carol number
• 16206 - square pyramidal number
• 16269 - octahedral number
• 16310 - weird number
• 16361 - palindromic prime
• 16384 - 2¹⁴
• 16447 - Friedman number
• 16843 - Wolstenholme prime
• 16561 - palindromic prime
• 16580 - Leyland number
• 16639 - Kynea number
• 16651 - cuban prime
• 16661 - palindromic prime
• 16730 - weird number
• 16796 - Catalan number
• 16807 - 7⁵
• 16870 - weird number
• 16896 - pentagonal pyramidal number
• 17163 - the largest number that is not the sum of the squares of distinct primes
• 17272 - weird number
• 17296 - amicable number with 18416
• 17344 - Kaprekar number
• 17471 - palindromic prime
• 17570 - weird number
• 17575 - square pyramidal number
• 17711 - Fibonacci number
• 17971 - palindromic prime
• 17990 - weird number
• 18010 - octahedral number
• 18181 - palindromic prime, strobogrammatic prime
• 18410 - weird number
• 18416 - amicable number with 17296
• 18481 - palindromic prime
• 18496 - sum of the cubes of the first 16 positive integers
• 18600 - harmonic divisor number
• 18620 - harmonic divisor number
• 18785 - Leyland number
• 18830 - weird number
• 18970 - weird number
• 19019 - square pyramidal number
• 19249 - one of nine remaining Seventeen or Bust numbers in the Sierpinski problem
• 19390 - weird number
• 19391 - palindromic prime
• 19441 - cuban prime
• 19455 - smallest integer that can't be expressed as a sum of fewer than 548 ninth powers
• 19513 - tribonacci number
• 19600 - 140², tetrahedral number
• 19609 - first prime followed by a prime gap of over fifty
• 19670 - weird number
• 19683 - 3⁹
• 19871 - octahedral number
• 19891 - palindromic prime
• 19927 - cuban prime
• 19991 - palindromic prime

See also

Mathematics portal

References

1. ^ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad (Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary)
2. ^ Climate Timeline Information Tool
3. ^ http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/28/HNnasalinux_1.html news
4. ^ NASA Project: Columbia
5. ^ http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/926 : Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

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