Myriads to Pieces (myriad to pc)
1 myriad equals 10,000 pieces exactly.
How to convert myriads to pieces
To convert myriads to pieces, multiply the number of myriads by 10,000. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply pieces by 0.0001.
pieces = myriads × 10,000
Example: 10 myriads = 100,000 pieces.
Large-number names differ around the world: this site uses the short scale (billion = 10⁹) by default, and lists the long-scale billion separately.
About these units
Myriad (myriad)
Ten thousand. The word comes from Greek; in Chinese, Japanese and Korean numbers are grouped in myriads (萬/万) rather than thousands.
Greek arithmetic had a single word for ten thousand, murias, which gave English the word myriad. Its own origin is uncertain. Greek numerals wrote it with a capital mu, and Archimedes used the myriad myriad, or one hundred million, as the base of the large-number scheme in his Sand Reckoner.
English speakers now use myriad mostly to mean a vast, unspecified number, and the exact 10,000 survives mainly in translations from Greek, Latin or Chinese. Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese still count in groups of 10,000, so that one million is expressed as one hundred wan. Other languages have a dedicated word as well, including Sanskrit ayuta, Old Turkic tumen and Hebrew revava. The prefix myria- stood for 10,000 in the original French metric system of 1795 but fell out of use, and a myriad is also a 100 kilometer grid square in British and US military mapping.
1 myriad = 10,000 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Myriad
Piece (pc)
A single item.
Piece is the plain unit for counting individual items, with no grouping implied. The word reached English from Old French piece, which came from Late Latin pecia or petia, meaning a fragment or a parcel of land. Its ultimate origin is uncertain, though Wiktionary notes a possible Gaulish source. It displaced the native Old English styce, which meant the same kind of thing.
Wiktionary defines it as a single item belonging to a class of similar items, and the word turns up in compounds such as by the piece, piece rate, and piecework. Every other counting unit in this family is just a fixed number of pieces: a pair is 2, a dozen 12, a gross 144, and a great gross 1,728. Treating the piece as the base is what lets any of them convert into any other by simple multiplication or division.
The piece is the reference unit for counting & quantity on this site.
Sources: Wiktionary: piece
Related conversions
- Pieces to myriads (reverse)
- Myriads to dozens
- Myriads to lakhs
- Myriads to millions
- Myriads to crores
- Myriads to billions (short scale)
- Dozens to pieces
- Lakhs to pieces
- Millions to pieces
- Crores to pieces
- Billions (short scale) to pieces
- Pairs to pieces
- Hundred to pieces
- Gross to pieces
- Thousand to pieces
- Trillions (short scale) to pieces
- Score to pieces
- Half dozens to pieces
See all counting & quantity units.