Chris Minofsky
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11 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2013
last heard Jan 2013
Chris Minofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Those words in Hindi and the other modern Indian languages go back to Sanskrit words.
So the word for lack, it's actually a slightly different word, laksha.
And the word for 10 million, crore, goes back to a Sanskrit word, koti.
Koti is a word that means the point or the tip or the ultimate.
And so it seems that in some numbering system long ago, it might have been that the
the figure of 10 million or a crore was the highest number that they were using.
An enumeration of the universe with specific vocabulary for each of these powers of 10 seems to be a fascination and an interest from a very early period.
As time goes on in the Sanskrit literature, you find much more frequently
reference to those particular units of a hundred thousand and a hundred hundred thousand or ten million as the preferred units for expressing these large numbers.
By the first few centuries of the Christian era, the common era,
The terms are being used by mathematicians and the astronomers, and especially by the astronomers who, when they calculate the speed of planets, they like to do it by expressing very large ratios of whole numbers.
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