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Encyclopedia > Ten thousand


Ten thousand (10000) is the natural number following 9999 and preceding 10001. The Greek prefix for 10,000 is myria-, from which myriad is derived.

10000
Cardinal Ten thousand
Ordinal Ten thousandth
Factorization 10000 = 24 · 54
Roman numeral
Unicode representation of Roman numeral
Binary 10011100010000
Hexadecimal 2710
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In mathematics

In scientific notation, it is written as 104.


In orders of magnitude (volume), 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.


A myriagon is a polygon with 10,000 sides.


In science

Myria is an obsolete prefix in the SI system of units that denoted a factor of 10+4, ten thousand, or 10,000. Its symbol was ma.


Myrio is an obsolete prefix in the SI system of units that denoted a factor of 10−4 or one ten-thousandth). Its symbol was mo.


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 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 the Chinese game of Mahjong, each of the nine character suit tiles (1 to 9) represents ten thousand (wan) coins, or one hundred strings of one hundred coins.


In computer software,

  • Powers of Ten Thousand is a new technique for browsing a very large space, the macroscope (http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Lieberary/Macroscope/Macroscope.html), involves taking the visual device of Powers of Ten and compounding it, using the computer's ability to combine, change and display images interactively. [1] (http://lieber.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Lieberary/Macroscope/Powers/Powers.html) ACM (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=192434&coll=portal&dl=ACM)
  • 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 geography, Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida. [2] (http://southeast.fws.gov/TenThousandIsland/)


In handicrafts, Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit program which provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. [3] (http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/)


In language,

In literature,

  • Ten Thousand Monkeys is a web publisher - "10,000 monkeys at 10,000 typewriters banging out the best in short fiction." http://m10k.net/
  • The Ten Thousand: A Novel Of Ancient Greece by Michael Curtis Ford. 2001. ISBN 0312269463 Historic fiction.

In music,

  • 10,000 Maniacs is a US rock band.
  • 10,000 Promises. is a Japanese popular music group

In physical fitness, 10,000 Steps Program is a walking exercise and health program. Walking 10,000 steps is the approximate equivalent of walking 5 miles. [4] (http://www.shapeup.org/10000steps.html)


See also

Selected 5-digit numbers (10001 - 99999)

10201 - palindromic square
10206 - pentagonal pyramidal number
10239 - Woodall number
10267 - cuban prime
10301 - palindromic prime
10333 - star number
10416 - square pyramidal number
10425 - octahedral 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
10792 - weird number
10837 - star number
10856 - amicable number with 10744
10905 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
10946 - Fibonacci number
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
11690 - weird number
11719 - cuban prime
11726 - octahedral number
12097 - cuban prime
12110 - weird number
12198 - semi-meandric number
12285 - amicable number with 14595
12321 - palindromic square
12341 - tetrahedral number
12421 - palindromic prime
12529 - square pyramidal number
12530 - weird number
12670 - weird number
12721 - palindromic prime
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
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
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
15841 - Carmichael number
15890 - weird number
16030 - weird number
16061 - palindromic prime
16091 - strobogrammatic prime
16206 - square pyramidal number
16269 - octahedral number
16310 - weird number
16361 - palindromic prime
16384 - power of two
16843 - Wolstenholme prime
16561 - palindromic prime
16651 - cuban prime
16661 - palindromic prime
16730 - weird number
16870 - weird number
16896 - pentagonal pyramidal number
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
18830 - weird number
18970 - weird number
19019 - square pyramidal number
19390 - weird number
19391 - palindromic prime
19441 - cuban prime
19513 - tribonacci number
19600 - 140^2, tetrahedral number
19670 - weird number
19871 - octahedral number
19891 - palindromic prime
19927 - cuban prime
19991 - palindromic prime
20000 - round number; also in the title of Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
20081 - Motorola 68K instruction for no operation (NOP)
20230 - pentagonal pyramidal number
20540 - square pyramidal number
20569 - tetranacci number
20965 - chiliagonal number
21856 - octahedral number
22050 - pentagonal pyramidal number
22140 - square pyramidal number
22222 - Kaprekar number
22447 - cuban prime
22527 - Woodall number
23409 - sum of the cubes of the first 17 positive integers
23497 - cuban prime
23821 - square pyramidal number
23969 - octahedral number
23976 - pentagonal pyramidal number
24211 - Zeisel number
24571 - cuban prime
24631 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
25085 - Zeisel number
25117 - cuban prime
25585 - square pyramidal number
26214 - octahedral number
26227 - cuban prime
26861 - smallest number below which there are more primes of the form 4k+1 than of the form 4k+3
27434 - square pyramidal number
27559 - Zeisel number
27720 - smallest number divisible by the numbers 1 to 12 (there is no smaller number divisible by the numbers 1 to 11)
27846 - harmonic divisor number
27952 - chiliagonal number
28158 - pentagonal pyramidal number
28595 - octahedral number
28657 - Fibonacci number
29241 - sum of the cubes of the first 18 positive integers
29341 - Carmichael number
29370 - square pyramidal number
30000 - round number
30029 - primorial prime
30030 - primorial
30240 - harmonic divisor number
30420 - pentagonal pyramidal number
30694 - open meandric number
31116 - octahedral number
31395 - square pyramidal number
31929 - Zeisel number
32760 - harmonic divisor number
32761 - 181^2, centered hexagonal number
32768 - power of two
32800 - pentagonal pyramidal number
33511 - square pyramidal number
33781 - octahedral number
35720 - square pyramidal number
35890 - tribonacci number
35937 - chiliagonal number
36100 - sum of the cubes of the first 19 positive integers
36594 - octahedral number
37378 - semi-meandric number
37926 - pentagonal pyramidal number
38024 - square pyramidal number
38962 - Kaprekar number
39559 - octahedral number
39648 - tetranacci number
40000 - round number
40320 - smallest factorial that is not a highly composite number
40425 - square pyramidal number
40678 - pentagonal pyramidal number
40804 - palindromic square
41041 - Carmichael number
41616 - triangular square number
41835 - Motzkin number
42680 - octahedral number
42925 - square pyramidal number
43560 - pentagonal pyramidal number
44100 - sum of the cubes of the first 20 positive integers, sampling rate of Red Book-compliant audio compact disks
44920 chiliagonal number
44944 - palindromic square
46368 - Fibonacci number
46656 - 6@2 using super-exponentiation
46657 - Carmichael number
49151 - Woodall number
49726 - pentagonal pyramidal number
50000 - round number
52633 - Carmichael number
53016 - pentagonal pyramidal number
53361 - sum of the cubes of the first 21 positive integers
54205 - Zeisel number
54901 - chiliagonal number
55860 - harmonic divisor number
56011 - Wedderburn-Etherington number
56448 - pentagonal pyramidal number
59081 - Zeisel number
60000 - round number
62745 - Carmichael number
63020 - amicable number with 76084
63360 - inches in a mile
63750 - pentagonal pyramidal number
63973 - Carmichael number
64009 - sum of the cubes of the first 22 positive integers
65279 - Unicode code point for byte order mark
65534 - Unicode code point guaranteed not to be a character
65536 - power of two, also 2↑↑4 using Knuth's up-arrow notation
65880 - chiliagonal number
66012 - tribonacci number
67626 - pentagonal pyramidal number
69105 - Infocom in-joke
70000 - round number
71656 - pentagonal pyramidal number
73712 - number of n-Queens Problem solutions for n = 13,
74205 - registry number of the USS Defiant on Star Trek Deep Space Nine
74656 - registry number of the USS Voyager on Star Trek Voyager
75025 - Fibonacci number
75361 - Carmichael number
76084 - amicable number with 63020
76176 - sum of the cubes of the first 23 positive integers
76424 - tetranacci number
77778 - Kaprekar number
77857 - chiliagonal number
78557 - conjectured to be the smallest Sierpinski number
80000 - round number
80286 - model number of the Intel 80286 chip
80386 - model number of the Intel 80386 chip
80486 - model number of the Intel 80486 chip
82656 - Kaprekar number
86400 - seconds in a day
87360 - unitary perfect number
90000 - sum of the cubes of the first 24 positive integers
90625 - the only five-digit automorphic number
90832 - chiliagonal number
95121 - Kaprekar number
99999 - Kaprekar number

  Results from FactBites:
 
Sensei's Library: Ten Thousand Year Ko (384 words)
A ten thousand year ko is a kind of ko position where either player can initiate the fight but the player who does is at a disadvantage, since the other player will be the one to take the ko first.
A ten thousand year ko is hyperactive, which means that its evaluation depends upon the ko threat situation.
A ten thousand year ko was at the center of a /rules crisis in Japan before they had written rules.
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (955 words)
Ten Thousand Islands NWR is located in Collier County on the southwest coast of Florida.
The abundance and diversity of wildlife on Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge is directly related to health and diversity of the habitats on the refuge.
The Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1996 under the provisions of the Arizona-Florida Land Exchange Act of 1988.
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