10000 (number)

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

Name

Many languages have a specific word for this number: in Ancient Greek it is μύριοι (related to the word myriad in English), in Aramaic ܪܒܘܬܐ, in Hebrew רבבה (revava), in Chinese 萬/万 (Mandarin wàn, Cantonese maan6, Hokkien bān), in Japanese 万/萬 [man], in Korean 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 early versions of the metric system in the form of the decimal prefix myria-.

The number 10000 can also be written 10,000 (UK and US), 10.000 (Europe mainland), 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.
• In E notation 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.
• 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 built a 10,000-processor Linux computer (it is actually a 10,240-processor) called Columbia^[3][4]
• 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.
  • 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.
  • Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska
  • Although there is no ZIP Code 10000 in the US, if there were, it would be in New York City, as ZIP codes 10001-11694 are.
• In geology, a list of Largest Volcanic Eruptions in the Last 10,000 Years
• In physics,
  • Myria- (and myrio-^[5][6][7]) is an obsolete metric prefix that denoted a factor of 10⁺⁴, ten thousand, or 10,000.
  • 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.

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,
  • Xenophon, on his Retreat with the Ten Thousand, first seeing the Sea, painting by Benjamin Haydon
• 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. The old bill had a picture of Saddam Hussein and Samarra: Spiral Minaret- Al-Mawiya
  • 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 distances,
  • 10 km, 10,000 m, or 1 E+4 m is equal to:
    • 1 Scandinavian mil
    • about 6.2137 English miles
    • side of square with area 100 km²
    • radius of a circle with area 100 π km² ≈ 314.159 km²
  • 10 English miles is exactly 1,609,344 mm
• 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
  • In Pixar's film Up The main character, Carl Fredrickson attaches 10,000 helium toy balloons to his house.
  • 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.
• 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 one of the rules of ko in the board game of Go
  • 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
  • The Army of the Ten Thousand were a group of Ancient Greek mercenaries who marched against Artaxerxes II of Persia.
  • 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 Islamic history, 10000 is the number of besieging forces led by Prophet Muhammad's adversary, Abu Sufyan, during the Battle of the Trench
  • 10000 is the number of Prophet Muhammad's soldiers during the conquest of Mecca
• In language,
  • the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese 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
  • 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
  • Ten Thousand Fists is an album by Disturbed.
  • 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
  • Ten Thousand Men of Harvard is a fight song of Harvard University
  • "10,000 promises" is a song by the Backstreet Boys
  • 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 Taoism, the "10,000 Things" is a term meaning all of phenomenal reality.
• In psychology], Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical, by Miller, Gustavus Hindman (1857–1929). Project Gutenberg^[8]
• In religion,
  • the Bible,
    • has 52 references to ten thousand in the King James Version.,
    • 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
  • The Ten thousand martyrs from The Catholic Encyclopedia
• In 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 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
  • In baseball, on July 15, 2007, the Philadelphia Phillies became the first team in professional sports' history to lose 10,000 .
• In training, 10,000 hours of adequate practice are necessary to achieve world class skills in any activity.^[9]

Selected numbers in the range 10001–19999

• 10033 – a character from the fictional Vlog series lonelygirl15
• 10080 – highly composite number; number of minutes in a week
• 10201 – 101², palindromic square (in the decimal system)
• 10206 – pentagonal pyramidal number
• 10223 – smallest 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
• 10440 - 144th triangular number
• 10501 – palindromic prime
• 10538 – 10538 Overture is a hit single by Electric Light Orchestra
• 10570 – weird number
• 10585 – Carmichael number
• 10601 – palindromic prime
• 10609 – tribonacci number
• 10646 – ISO 10646 is the standard for Unicode
• 10648 – 22³
• 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
• 11353 – star 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
• 11826 – smallest number whose square (algebra) is pandigital but lacks zeros.
• 12097 – cuban prime
• 12110 – weird number
• 12167 – 23³
• 12198 – semi-meandric number
• 12285 – amicable number with 14595
• 12287 – Thabit number
• 12321 – palindromic square
• 12341 – tetrahedral number
• 12407 - cited on QI as the smallest uninteresting positive integer in terms of arithmetical mathematics.^{[notes 1][10]}
• 12421 – palindromic prime
• 12529 – square pyramidal number
• 12530 – weird number
• 12670 – weird number
• 12721 – palindromic prime
• 12726 – Ruth–Aaron pair
• 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").
• 12769 – 113², palindromic in base 3
• 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
• 13792 – largest number that is not a sum of 16 fourth powers
• 13820 – meandric number, open meandric number
• 13824 – 24³
• 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 – 11⁴, palindromic square (base 10)
• 14644 – octahedral number
• 14701 – Markov number
• 14741 – palindromic prime
• 14770 – weird number
• 14595 – amicable number with 12285
• 14884 – 122², palindromic square in base 11
• 14910 – square pyramidal number
• 15015 – smallest odd and square-free abundant number
• 15120 – highly composite 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
• 15876 – 126², palindromic square in base 5
• 15890 – weird number
• 16030 – weird number
• 16061 – palindromic prime
• 16091 – strobogrammatic prime
• 16127 – Carol prime, also an emirp
• 16206 – square pyramidal number
• 16269 – octahedral number
• 16310 – weird number
• 16361 – palindromic prime
• 16384 – 2¹⁴, palindromic in base 15
• 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^[11]
• 17344 – Kaprekar number
• 17471 – palindromic prime
• 17570 – weird number
• 17575 – square pyramidal number
• 17576 – 26³, palindromic in base 5
• 17689 – 133², palindromic in base 11
• 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^[12]
• 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
• 19390 – weird number
• 19391 – palindromic prime
• 19441 – cuban prime
• 19455 – smallest integer that cannot be expressed as a sum of fewer than 548 ninth powers
• 19513 – tribonacci number
• 19531 – repunit prime in base 5
• 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

Notes

References

• Gladwell, Malcolm (2008). Outliers: The story of Success. New York: Little, Brown & Co. ISBN 978-0-316-03669-6. 

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