Myriad

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A myriad (from Ancient Greek μυριάς, myrias) is technically the number 10,000 (ten thousand); in that sense, the term is used in English almost exclusively for literal translations from Greek, Latin or Sinospheric languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese), or when talking about ancient Greek numerals.

More generally, a myriad may be used in colloquial vernaculars to imply an indefinitely large number.^[1]

History[]

The Aegean numerals of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations included a single unit to denote tens of thousands. It was written with a symbol composed of a circle with four dashes