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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

To be fair, knowing 10000 things is far from knowing everything.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So in Chinese traditions "10000" is just a stand in for "really big number". Kind of like how, at least here in the states, well say "there's a million of them". Not that there is literally 1,000,000 of the thing, but more there is just a lot of them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

there's a myriad of phrases like that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Just to spell it out for people: myriad means 10,000 but has been used as a stand in for "huge variety" for so long that people don't know that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, a ton

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Still pretty impressive for an owl.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If words count as things, then most people know way more than that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even concepts can easily surpass that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I know at least 8356 numbers alone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Wow, I only know 8355 numbers. That's very impressive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I can do ya one better...