Many languages have a specific word for this number: In English it is a myriad, in Ancient Greekμύριοι, in Aramaicܪܒܘܬܐ, 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).
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.
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]
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]
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 MacLearISBN 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
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]
In psychology, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical, by Miller, Gustavus Hindman (1857–1929). Project Gutenberg5
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
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").