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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Still pretty impressive for an owl.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day 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.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

there's a myriad of phrases like that

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 0 points 12 hours 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.

[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even concepts can easily surpass that

[–] four@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

I know at least 8356 numbers alone