![]() ![]() ![]() In his book The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes used the myriad as the base of a number system designed to count the grains of sand in the universe. The common log is said to have base 10, but base 10,000 is ancient and still common in East Asia. As the common log of ten is one, of a hundred is two, and a thousand is three, the concept of common logarithms is very close to the decimal-positional number system.
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