Things Relating to the Number 10,000
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Channel: Concerning Reality · 2018 · Education
Ten thousand is a number that has historically been associated with the phrase "a very large number." While our modern understanding of mathematics and the world around us may not always lend itself to that interpretation any longer, let's take a look at some things around us that relate to the number 10,000. The speed of the fastest neutron is 10,000 km/s The square root of 100,000,000 is 10,000. The Japanese 10000 yen banknote has a portrait of Fukuzawa Yukichi, a Japanese author and teacher who died in 1901. 6.2137 miles is made up of 10,000 meters. The fight song of Harvard is named "Ten thousand men of Harvard." There are 52 references to the number 10,000 in the KJV of the Bible. In 2007, the Philadelphia Phillies became the first team in professional sports history to lose 10,000 games. Ten thousand is the current world record for the number of digits of pi memorized by a human being. 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. Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes NASA built a 10000-processor Linux computer (it is actually a 10,240-processor) called Columbia that was active from 2004 to 2013. Myria is an obsolete metric prefix that denoted a factor of 10+4, ten thousand, or 10,000. A 10,000-hertz radio frequency has a wavelength of 30 kilometers. The Clock of the Long Now is a mechanical clock under construction that is designed to keep time for 10,000 years. Doctors recommend that humans take at least 10,000 steps per day. The average American only makes it to about half that. A 27-year-old has lived for about 10,000 days. If you use Google maps to go to the number 10,000, you'll land at this location in northern Ghana. The median annual income in the world is just under 10,000 dollars, coming it at $9,733. All images and videos courtesy of the creative commons or used in accordance with fair use laws. For questions or concerns, please use the contact section on our channel. Music: Divider by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/divider/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/
