The classical Greeks used letters of the Greek alphabet to represent Greek numerals: they used a capital letter mu (Μ) to represent ten thousand. This Greek root was used in early versions of the metric system in the form of the decimal prefix myria-.
Depending on the country, the number ten thousand is usually written as 10,000 (including in the UK and US), 10.000, or 10 000.[3]
In mathematics
In scientific notation it is written as 104 or 1 E+4 (equivalently 1 E4) in E notation.
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 10000 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.[9]
Land of 10000 Lakes is the nickname for the state of Minnesota.
Land of 10000 Trails or 10000trails.com is an organization created in 1999 by the TN/KY Lakes Area Coalition and based in West Tennessee and West Kentucky to promote tourism by developing trails in the region.[12]
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.[13]
In acoustics, 10,000 hertz, 10 kilohertz, or 10 kHz of a sound signal at sea level has a wavelength of about 34 mm.
In music, a 10 kilohertz sound is a E♭9 in the A440 pitch standard, a bit more than an octave higher in pitch than the highest note on a standard piano.
In time
10000 BC, 10000 BCE, or 10th millennium BC.
10000-year clock or the Clock of the Long Now is a mechanical clock designed to keep time for 10000 years.
In Arts
In films,
10,000 Black Men Named George (2002, TV).
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956).
Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (1980, mini).
In music,
10,000 Days is the title of the fourth studio album by Tool.
10,000 Reasons (album) is a 2013 Christian album by Matt Redman.
"10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)" is a 2013 single by Matt Redman.
10,000 Promises. is a Japanese pop group.
"Ten Thousand Strong" is a song by American power metal band Iced Earth.
10,000 Gecs is the title of the second studio album by American experimental duo 100 gecs.
In other fields
In currency,
A version of Iraq's 10,000 dinar banknote has Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (also known as Alhazen) on the front, and a later issue has sculptor Jawad Saleem's Freedom Monument in Baghdad on the front. Both notes have an image of Mosul's al-Hadba' Minaret on the back.[17] The first issue had an image of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the Spiral Minaret - Al-Minārat Al-Malwiyyah in Samarra.[18]
the Japanese ¥10,000 banknote depicts Fukuzawa Yukichi.
radius of a circle with area 100 π km2 ≈ 314.159 km2.
In finance, on March 29, 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10006.78, 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.[19]
In games,
Ten Thousand is one name of a dice game 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.[20]
The Army of the Ten Thousand were a group of Ancient Greek mercenaries who marched against Artaxerxes II of Persia.
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, 10,000 is the Number of besieging forces led by Muhammad's adversary, Abu Sufyan, during the Battle of the Trench.
10,000 is the number of Muhammad's soldiers during the conquest of Mecca.
the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese phrase live for ten thousand years was used to bless emperors in East Asia.
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.[21]
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 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.[22]
In piphilology, ten thousand is the current world record for the Number of digits of pi memorized by a human being.
In psychology, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical, by Miller, Gustavus Hindman (1857–1929). Project Gutenberg.[23]
has 52 references to ten thousand in the King James Version.[24]
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.[25]
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 meters, 10 kilometers, 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.[28]
In baseball, on July 15, 2007, the Philadelphia Phillies became the first team in professional sports history to lose 10,000 games.
Selected numbers in the range 10001-19999
10001 to 10999
10007 = smallest five-digit prime number, twin prime with 10009.
10008 = palindromic in bases 5 (3100135), 22 (KEK22), 28 (CLC28) and 33 (96933) and a Harshad number in bases 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14 and 16.
10958 = the smallest positive integer that cannot be represented by an equation using increasing order of integers from 1 to 9 and basic arithmetic operations.[46]
11953 = palindromic prime in bases 7 (465647) and 30 (D8D30).
12000 to 12999
12000 = 12,000 of each of the twelve tribes of Israel made up the 144,000 servants of God who were 'sealed' according to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.[52]
12048 = number of non-isomorphic set-systems of weight 12.
12542 = there is a match puzzle called MOST + MOST = TOKYO, where each letter represents a digit. When one solves the puzzle , TOKYO = 12542, as 6271 + 6271 = 12542 [58]
12758 = most significant 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".
15640 = initial number of only four-, five-, or six-digit century to contain two prime quadruples[65] (in between which lies a record prime gap of 43[66]).
15661 = Friedman prime.
15667 = second nice Friedman prime.
15679 = Friedman prime.
15793 – Number of parallelogram polyominoes with 13 cells.[67]
19683 = 273, 39. Furthermore, there is a math puzzle regarding the word logic, such that LOGIC = (L+O+G+I+C)3. The solution to this is (1+9+6+8+3) (1+9+6+8+3) (1+9+6+8+3), which is (27)(27)(27), which equals to 19683. This is one of two digits for which this works, although the other solution has O and I are the same digit: 17576, as (1+7+5+7+6) (1+7+5+7+6) (1+7+5+7+6) = (26)(26)(26) = 17576. [79]
There are 1033 prime numbers between 10000 and 20000, a count that is itself prime. It is 196 prime numbers less than the number of primes between 0 and 10000 (1229, also prime).
↑Taneja, Inder (2013). "Crazy Sequential Representation: Numbers from 0 to 11111 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9". arXiv:1302.1479 [math.HO].
↑Host: Stephen Fry; Panellists: Alan Davies, Al Murray, Dara Ó Briain and Sandi Toksvig (11 November 2011). "Inland Revenue". QI. Series I. Episode 10. London, England. 19:55 minutes in. BBC. BBC Two.